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Quote:6ix, you really are cuckoo. Who made that video? This silly man: Mark Dice @markdice "I'm Mark Dice and I enjoy laughing at liberal lunatics, mocking celebrity scum, and exposing the Liberal Media Industrial Complex. You have found the BEST CONSERVATIVE CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE, so subscribe now. On my channel we will systematically debunk fake news, push back against Big Tech's censorship of free speech online, and defend the Constitution of the United States to Make America Great Again!" Mark Dice isn't self-aware enough to realize he is crazy.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second is talking about this clown, who used to be a normal person.
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6ix, your food consumption was insane http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=11724
21#1172421 , but then you stopped, temporarily, after making yourself ill, and now your media consumption is becoming similarly crazy. 6ix, you go from one insane habit to the next. 6ix, maybe you should break all old and new bad habits, stop everything wrong you do with your days, go on a vacation from Trump, MAGA, politics, Mark Dice, all these things that a neurotic like you should avoid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you really are cuckoo. Who made that video?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second is talking about this clown, who used to be a normal person.
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It doesn't matter who made the video. That dude used to wear normal suits and talk like a human being. Now he looks like something out of a Blacksploitation film and talks like a caricature.
As for the rest of your post? Get fucked.
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10 Years After My Cancer Diagnosis, the Right Is Still Trying to Kill Me
In 2013, I had great health insurance, and it probably saved my life.
If ever there were a cancer where early detection makes all the difference, it’s melanoma. If I hadn’t gone to have my weird-looking mole examined, eventually one day, a clump of malignant cells would have migrated from my skin to elsewhere in my body and quietly begun multiplying. Would that have taken six months, three years, five years? There’s no way to know. But then I would have been looking at prognosis charts with survival numbers like 67 percent, or 49 percent, or 34 percent. The difference between that and being cancer-free was a five-minute procedure in a suburban office building on a Monday.
That’s why it’s so important to understand how unworried I was. I wasn’t $400 worth of worried, or $100 worth of worried, or even $20 worth. I wouldn’t have gone to the dermatologist if I didn’t have health insurance. I probably wouldn’t have gone if I had insurance but it had a big deductible or even any real copay. The only reason I went to have my life saved is because it cost me zero dollars.
And the reason it cost me nothing is because I was then working for Dog Eat Dog Films, Michael Moore’s production company, and had America’s best health insurance. Moore didn’t just make an entire documentary, “SiCKO,” about our disastrous health insurance system, he did his best to make sure his employees didn’t experience it. My coverage had no deductible, and most doctor’s visits had no copay. (The dental coverage was great too — I had three wisdom teeth removed for a total cost to me of $242.) I’d never had insurance like this before in my life and probably never will again unless I move to Ontario.
So you can understand why ever since, I’ve closely followed the GOP’s attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. With my melanoma diagnosis, I suddenly became much more interested in everything about health care policy, in the same way you’re suddenly much more interested in the safety instructions in the seat back in front of you when the pilot announces you’re ditching in Lake Superior. And every time Republicans have gone on TV to talk about this subject, what I’ve heard them say is, “We very much want to kill you, Jon Schwarz.”
That’s because Obamacare required insurance companies for the first time to cover everyone, regardless of any preexisting conditions. There’s no more disqualifying condition than cancer; without Obamacare, I would now likely be essentially uninsurable if someday in the future I need to get insurance on the individual market. And we know what happens to people without health insurance in the United States: they die.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t understand Obamacare’s many grievous flaws. But they’re not flaws of going too far; they’re flaws of not going nearly far enough.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230415103338/https://theintercept.com/20
23/04/15/health-insurance-affordable-care-act/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab52
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday.
It passed a Democrat Senate and was signed into law by Joe Biden*.
Bernie Sanders is not happy.
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Quote:Bernie is not happy with what Republican governors want. Quoting the same news story: "The legislation will sunset a requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency that prohibited states from booting people off Medicaid. The Biden administration has been under mounting pressure to declare the public health emergency over, with 25 Republican governors asking the president to end it in a letter on Monday, which cited growing concerns about bloated Medicaid enrollment." Republicans don't love "bloated".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab52
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday.
It passed a Democrat Senate and was signed into law by Joe Biden*.
Bernie Sanders is not happy.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Democrats didn't have to do it. They had the power and yet they chose to do it anyhow.
Don't cry about healthcare when Democrat politicians don't give a shit about it either.
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Quote:You worthless Trumptards have never understood anything going on in Congress and no amount of explanation makes even the tiniest dent in your ignorance. It is zero surprise that the life of a Trumptard is hard because you guys are living and breathing versions of Homer Simpson, the alcoholic who hates his job and does not get along well with his children or his spouse in the cartoons.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Democrats didn't have to do it. They had the power and yet they chose to do it anyhow.
Don't cry about healthcare when Democrat politicians don't give a shit about it either.
Plutocratic Power and Its Perils
The rich are different from you and me: They have immensely more power. But when they try to exercise that power they can trap themselves — supporting politicians who will, if they can, create a society the rich themselves wouldn’t want to live in.
This, I’d argue, is the common theme running through four major stories that have been playing out over the past few months. They are: the relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and the billionaire Harlan Crow; the rise and seeming decline of Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign; the trials (literally) of Fox News; and the Muskopalypse at Twitter.
First, some notes on the role of vast wealth in a democracy.
People on the right often insist that expressing any concern about highly concentrated wealth is “un-American.” The truth, however, is that worrying about the dangers great wealth poses for democracy is very much part of the American tradition. And our nation basically invented progressive taxation, which was traditionally seen not just as a source of revenue but also as a way to limit excessive wealth.
In fact, if you read what prominent figures said during the Progressive Era, many expressed views that would be hysterically denounced as class warfare today. Theodore Roosevelt warned against “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.” Woodrow Wilson declared, “If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
How does great wealth translate into great power? Campaign finance is dominated by a tiny number of extremely rich donors. But there are several other channels of influence.
Until recently I would have said that outright corruption — direct purchase of favors from policymakers — was rare. ProPublica’s revelation that Justice Thomas enjoyed many lavish, undisclosed vacations at Crow’s expense suggests that I may have been insufficiently cynical.
Beyond that, there’s the revolving door: Former politicians and officials who supported the interests of the wealthy find comfortable sinecures at billionaire-supported lobbying firms, think tanks and media organizations. These organizations also help shape what military analysts call the “information space,” defining public discourse in ways that favor the interests of the superrich.
Despite all that, however, there’s only so much you can achieve in America, imperfect and gerrymandered as our democracy may be, unless you can win over large numbers of voters who don’t support a pro-billionaire economic agenda.
It’s a simplification, but I think fundamentally true, to say that the U.S. right has won many elections, despite an inherently unpopular economic agenda, by appealing to intolerance — racism, homophobia and these days anti-“wokeness.” Yet there’s a risk in that strategy: Plutocrats who imagine that the forces of intolerance are working for them can wake up and discover that it’s the other way around.
Which brings us to the other stories I mentioned.
For a while DeSantis seemed to be surging in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Much of his apparent rise reflected support from big G.O.P. donors, who saw him as a saner
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Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab52
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday.
It passed a Democrat Senate and was signed into law by Joe Biden*.
Bernie Sanders is not happy.
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Quote:The spending bill would not have passed (H.R.2617 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023) unless the Republicans got what they wanted: permission to kick people out of Medicaid in their states. You can check the votes because the Senate has to record who voted to pass a spending bill and who didn't. All the Democrats voted for the bill and most of the Republicans voted against spending any money on anything, including Medicaid. The few Republicans that voted for the bill got what they wanted: kick people out of Medicaid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab52
97Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday.
It passed a Democrat Senate and was signed into law by Joe Biden*.
Bernie Sanders is not happy.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_1
17_2_00421.htm
You can see which states are kicking people out of Medicaid:
Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expa
nsion-decisions-interactive-map/
Most, but not every Republican-controlled state kicked people out of Medicaid. Democrat-controlled states didn't kick anybody out of Medicaid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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So, Is Clarence Thomas at Real Risk Here? Absolutely.
The statute also imposes criminal penalties up to one year’s imprisonment and fines for “knowingly and willingly” falsifying a disclosure report and for “fail[ing] to file or report any information” required by the act.
Thomas’ behavior calls his ethics into question and casts a shadow over the Supreme Court. He cannot cure that by simply amending his financial disclosures, as media reports indicate he now plans to do, only now that he has been discovered. That might be sufficient if this were his first transgression, but it is not. He has used up any excuses after being caught in a series of other financial disclosure omissions over the years.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-harlan-cro
w-doj-congress-roberts.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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