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Trump, on AF1, to reporters on Iraq parliament vote to expel US troops, says if Baghdad asks them to leave and does not repay for joint air base:“We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”
“They’re allowed to kill our people? They’re allowed to torture and maim our people, they’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people? And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn’t work that way”
After strike, Trump seems to acknowledge that Iran may retaliate against American assets:“If it happens, it happens. If they do anything there will be major retaliation.”
This primary I've been getting a decent amount of text messages that I would describe as the equivalent of door knocking for a candidate. I assume the people behind these are juggling lots and lots of them at any one time so short response times aren't a reasonable expectation, but it's really hard to work up the energy to lie and say, "Shucks, I just haven't decided between Biden, Warren, or Sanders," as the chain of: initial contact, response, follow-up response drags into the following morning from early evening.On the plus side at least it's not a 30 to 45 minute telephone conversation with a pollster who doesn't like that I do benji-style responses to questions.
I knew an Iranian-Canadian or two. Good guys. Fucking Amerisharts.
If you’re like a lot of Democrats, you worry that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too liberal — or at least that other voters think so. You’re also not buying the Pete Buttigieg hype. And you get nervous every time Joe Biden opens his mouth.So where are you supposed to find a comfortably electable, qualified candidate who won’t turn 80 while in office?Senator Amy Klobuchar has become an answer to that question in the final month before voting begins. She has outlasted more than a dozen other candidates and has two big strengths: A savvy understanding of how to campaign against President Trump and a track record of winning the sorts of swing voters Democrats will likely need this year.
Yet she still emerged as one of the debate’s winners, and she is enjoying a burst of new attention. She raised more than twice as much money, $11.4 million, in the fourth quarter of 2019 than the third quarter. When I ask top Democrats which candidate has the best chance of beating Trump, Klobuchar is often their answer. If party leaders still chose nominees, she might now be the favorite.In that way, she reminds me of another Midwestern senator who once seemed too ordinary to be president: Harry Truman. In the summer of 1944, an even more perilous time for global democracy than now, Democratic Party grandees chose Truman as vice president with the belief that he would soon be president, given Franklin Roosevelt’s declining health.Truman was (as Klobuchar is) a loyal Democrat with populist leanings whom many Republicans, both senators and voters, nonetheless felt some affection for. He had a folksy manner and heartland accent. He was also a long shot for the nomination when the process began. The analogy extends to Klobuchar’s best-known weakness: Truman had a temper, too.
Her greatest strength is her understanding of how to beat Republicans. They like to portray Democrats as self-serious elites who look down on ordinary Americans. (Think about the caricatures of John Kerry, Al Gore and Michael Dukakis.) Klobuchar has built her political career on an image that combines working class and middle class.She grew up in a family that struggled with alcoholism and divorce, and she talks about it. When her husband, John Bessler, was a child, he lived with his five brothers and parents in a trailer home. Klobuchar’s memoir is called, “The Senator Next Door.” She tells too many self-deprecating jokes to seem earnest. Some of them are even funny.She is still a relative city slicker, having lived most of her life around the Twin Cities and attended Yale and the University of Chicago’s law school. But she knows how to persuade voters who are different from her that she respects them. She has learned the minutia of farm policy and rural development. She visits all of Minnesota’s 87 counties every year.Klobuchar combines this persona with tough, clear explanations of how Republican policies will hurt the middle class: They will make prescription drugs more expensive, health insurance harder to get and climate destruction worse. If she’s elected, she promises to raise taxes on the rich, lift take-home pay for everyone else, take on big-business abuses and combat climate change.In the 2018 midterms, as Klobuchar points out, Democrats focused on bread-and-butter issues while largely avoiding divisive ideas like Medicare for All.
I am also struck by Klobuchar’s views about how to run against Trump this time — to talk about how he has let down the country (which gives his old supporters permission to switch sides), to use humor against his demagoguery and to appeal to voters’ emotions and patriotism.On that last point, her primary campaign could benefit from her own advice: Klobuchar would improve her chances if she could find the grace notes that lift the best campaigns by telling a story about America.I’m not saying that Democrats should necessarily vote for Klobuchar. Other candidates have strengths she doesn’t. Buttigieg, for example, summons those grace notes naturally.
(Image removed from quote.)Let it fucking end.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-care-insurance.html
His family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark Collie
Instead, they pay about $530 a month through a Christian health care sharing organization
advises its members that “there is no coverage, no guarantee of payment.”
Quote from: Kara on January 06, 2020, 03:42:01 AMhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-care-insurance.htmlQuoteHis family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark CollieQuoteInstead, they pay about $530 a month through a Christian health care sharing organizationQuoteadvises its members that “there is no coverage, no guarantee of payment.”Cool, very cool.
lol thinking $500 a month could cover a family with the ACA. That's maybe enough for one person.
Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 06, 2020, 09:08:02 AMQuote from: Kara on January 06, 2020, 03:42:01 AMhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/health/christian-health-care-insurance.htmlQuoteHis family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark CollieQuoteInstead, they pay about $530 a month through a Christian health care sharing organizationQuoteadvises its members that “there is no coverage, no guarantee of payment.”Cool, very cool. "We can't afford real insurance."*wastes half a grand a month on fake insurance*
cool, now what about the people who have "real jobs" that don't offer insurance?
Just sounds like a basic scam.. "Give us $500 and you won't be fined $1500 by the government as you can use us to pretend you have insurance."edit: Oh that fine was removed last year.. but honestly can't fathom why anyone would throw that money away.. maybe their state still has fines?
Or health insurance prices could go down to a reasonable level so they could be afforded by everyone. That seems like a better solution than "get a real job even though not all real jobs offer or cover insurance costs"
Sounds like someone who doesn't have to buy insurance from the marketplace talking to me
Maybe you should get a real job
I don't have a kid with a brain aneurysm.
Quote from: Tasty Meat on January 06, 2020, 10:06:17 AMI don't have a kid with a brain aneurysm.Neither did he, until he did.
Nacho did you even read the NYT story or are you jumping to 10 REEEEE-style since I posited that a father should put his own dreams aside for the sake of his family?That literally has nothing to do with you going off on a Bernie rant about the evils of healthcare.
Then you got ranty about "real jobs" for some reason and ignored me pointing out that "real jobs" give no guarantee of giving insurance or being able to afford it.
Faith healing been a thing for centuries. Bring out the snakes and now we are talking..
you're probably right, poor people deserve to die
Quote from: nachobro on January 06, 2020, 10:21:07 AMyou're probably right, poor people deserve to diePeople who allow their wife and children to die through inaction should be called out for such. I have the same stance for antivaxers.
People who allow their wife and children to die through inaction should be called out for such. I have the same stance for antivaxers.
the solution to this is probably more in the way making healthcare cheaper, not telling people to get real jobs or die.
North Carolina isn't a Medicaid expansion state. (Something that will likely persist as long as they don't have free and fair elections.) Given that the child at the beginning of the story eventually found his way onto Medicaid it's reasonable to assume that his family was one intended to be on Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act as it was designed to exist at passage.
i love how offended you are at me pointing out that $500 a month isn't enough to cover a family's medical insurance costs. sorry for knowing things?
