Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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AVERAGE HEALTH CARE COSTS IN THE UNITED STATES:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between $30k and $150k.
And that’s NOT including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada for all of these? $0
Cost in the UK? $0
Cost in Australia? $0
And yet Republicans just shut down the government in order to make health care EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE for the average American, just to give their billionaire pals yet ANOTHER giant tax cut.
https://imgur.com/gallery/f-NDsDQar
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want
There are almost 150 million dwelling units in America. Most homes are covered by insurance, and most home insurance covers losses due to fire. Yet in a normal year there are fewer than 400,000 home fires. Even if we allow for the fact that some homeowners don’t have insurance and some policies don’t cover fire damage, the vast majority of homeowners are paying for fire coverage that they will never use.
Clearly, this is a massive waste of money, a huge giveaway to the insurance industry.
OK, presumably almost no one believes that. While it’s unlikely that your house will burn down, losing your house to fire would be a crushing financial blow if you are uninsured. So we all pay premiums to protect ourselves against disaster. All Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans require home insurance.
Health insurance operates on the same principle. Without health insurance, you are at risk of a catastrophic financial blow if you get sick and require hospitalization. Moreover, even if you don’t require hospitalization, you are more likely to avoid getting regular check-ups and preventative care, thereby making it more likely that you will indeed suffer a health crisis and, possibly, death.
Yet the shutdown drama made it clear, once again, that Republicans, from Donald Trump on down, refuse to understand this basic point. Or if they do and say so publicly, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and say so, they become a pariah within the party. But most prefer to behave like the hapless and probably doomed New York Republican Rep. Mark Lawler, and blame Democrats for having forced the issue into the headlines.
But the fact that Republicans have been misrepresenting how health insurance works since Obamacare was first proposed in 2009 is a testament to their cruelty and intentional ignorance. For example, Trump’s opening salvo against the Democrats demand for continuation of the ACA subsidies blasted “money sucking insurance companies”, claiming that the subsidies should be sent directly to taxpayers so that Americans can “PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE” – that is, demanding that they pay doctors and hospitals out of pocket:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
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As I explained above, this won’t work for the same reason homeowners need fire insurance: There’s a small risk that you may face extremely high costs, and you need protection in case that happens. In addition, lack of insurance is likely to make you sicker, thus more likely to require higher future health expenses and diminished quality of life.
In any given year, most people face low or modest health care costs, but a small number of people face huge bills. Here’s the distribution of health spending in 2022:
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/health-policy-101-health-care-costs-a
nd-affordability/?entry=table-of-contents-how-does-health-care-spending-vary-across-the-population
Half the population spent almost nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population accounted for half of spending, and 1 percent for more than a
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. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.
One Trump ally said that the latest Epstein discourse has taken “things that are already complicated for the president and brings them to the surface.”
“It’s like adding salt to a dish — the flavors are already there, it just accentuates all of them,” said the person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive issue.
The fresh wave of chaos has knocked the administration on its heels. The president lashed out at Republicans on social media, some House Republicans are under pressure to withdraw from the effort to bring the matter to the floor and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the media.
“This is another distraction campaign by the Democrats and the liberal media, and it’s why I’m being asked questions about Epstein instead of the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump,” Leavitt said during a Wednesday press briefing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/the-new-epstein-files-are-the
-latest-blow-to-a-white-house-on-its-heels-00649341
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I do NOT believe you.
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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.
You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.
I do not care.
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Originally posted by second:
. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.
This was already debunked the second your goons tried it, retard.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OOPS. Another of Ted's clickbait lies debunked...Quote:
Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?
It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.
Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.
Shame on them.
https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1988612679246794773
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/opinion/miranda-devine-the-left-is-pushi
ng-another-desperate-anti-trump-hoax-a-false-epstein-smear-campaign/
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California Cancels 17,000 CDLs Following Federal Audit
Thursday, Nov 13, 2025 - 07:25 AM
Authored by John Gallagher via FreightWaves.com,
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has cancelled 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses following a federal audit of the state’s CDL program, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
In a press statement on Wednesday, DOT asserted that state officials admitted to illegally issuing the CDLs “to dangerous foreign drivers,” and that DMV sent notices to the license holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days.
“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”
FreightWaves has reached out to California’s DMV for comment.
FMCSA Chief Counsel Jesse Elison notified Newsom and his DMV in a September 26 letter that a sampling of the roughly 62,000 drivers in California holding unexpired, non-domiciled CDLs or commercial learner’s permits issued by the state revealed that 26% – which extrapolates to roughly 16,000 – failed to comply with federal requirements.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-cancels-17000-cdls-foll
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by second:
The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want
Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.
The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark
Obama caved when he threw everyone into the (private) insurer's maw with a sweetener of tax money.
THAT'S the ACA: a tax giveaway to private insurers.
Just as bad as GWB's Part D "no bid" Rx program.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Of all of Trump’s scandals, his relationship with Epstein — if you ignore the stomach-churning human toll involved — may be the richest source of black comedy. Some of Trump’s most devoted worshippers chose the very issue of Epstein’s misdeeds and supposed cabal of elite backers as the fantasy onto which they projected a valiant role for their hero. Trump was meant to courageously release all of the available evidence for public scrutiny. Instead, this scandal has turned out to implicate him personally. (This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States — almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.)
Trump’s defense in the matter has been that the Epstein files are a hoax, concocted to smear him by “Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.” But he has also decided to let the matter drop because this conspiracy involving the CIA, the FBI, and two presidents to falsely connect him to a criminal millionaire who died suspiciously is simply too boring for anybody to care about. “I don’t understand it, why they would be so interested. He’s dead for a long time,” Trump said of Epstein in July.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-epstein-email/684909/
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Quote:Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, played a crucial role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by using his single vote as leverage against the bill's public option. He threatened to vote against the legislation unless the government-run public option insurance plan was removed, a demand Democrats eventually conceded to in order to secure his vote for the final bill.
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Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.
The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark
In other words, you didn't get anything right, Signym. Your next logical step would be to accuse Joe Lieberman of taking bribes from the health insurance companies. But we will never know because nobody can prove anything.
P.S. None of the Republican Senators needed to be bribed because they naturally do the wrong thing every time.
Why Joe Lieberman is holding Barack Obama to ransom over healthcare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-barack-oba
ma-us-healthcare
Democrats accuse Gore's former running mate of bitterness and vanity after he uses his deciding vote in Congress to water down president's reforms
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"Independent" Joe Lieberman was one of yours, just like "Independent" Bernie Sanders is today.
Shut the fuck up, stooge.
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