Some people stare at a plain piece of
glass and call it a prism.

Hopeless.

#118 | Posted by BillJohnson

Some people stare at better systems all around the world and call them impossible for the USA.
They're not real smart.

It's always funny when people say just copy others, there's a reason they come to the US for the complicated items.

US doctors, hospitals and ambulances are just outrageously priced.

#112 | Posted by oneironaut

Because we have the best system FOR THE RICH.

Do you measure a nation's healthcare system by how well it SERVES THE RICH?

But idol worshipping isn't limited to any particular group. Indeed its the fake Christians. But idol worshippers can be atheists or come from any group for that matters.

#113 | Posted by BillJohnson

But atheists aren't breaking any rules against idol worship. Christians are.

Speak,

"It's not workers who broke the social compact"

If you want to know who believed globalization was going to lift the whole world out of poverty, look at the cheerleaders.

Bill Clinton who sold NAFTA, WTO expansion, and China's entry into the global market as a moral and economic partner.

Tony Blair who was Clinton's British twin. Same message, same faith in global markets, same New Labour' mantra.

Economists like Thomas Friedman who, preaching from his pulpit at The New York Times, turning globalization into a warm fuzzy, magnanimous fantasy for the elite. He hammered that message from the early '90s through the 2000s.

Get the full picture before jumping to conclusions.

#109 | Posted by BillJohnson

Which is exactly what i said you illiterate. The rich broke the social compact by screwing the workers to make themselves richer. Yet you're here whining about the workers being lazy instead of the workers being screwed.

Their systems work because the culture values collective responsibility. People expect each other to contribute, not to freeload.

#106 | Posted by BillJohnson

It's not workers who broke the social compact where workers work for the rich and the rich take care of them. It's the rich who decided "screw the workers I want to be even richer" who broke the system. No more pensions, contract hires with zero benefits instead of employees, offshoring jobs for cheaper labor. Why would anyone want to bust their ass for a corporation that's just going to screw them over?

So you don't think a breakdown of healthcare costs is an important part of managing healthcare?

I bet you think a high risk of error voting system is preferred for elections too.

#100 | Posted by BillJohnson

Define voting error.

If the errors are .00001% of votes, then it is not worth revamping the system, especially in a way that will make it harder for people to vote.

As for healthcare it's not a mystery. Look at the countries that do it better and COPY THEM. Same thing you'd do if your lawn was ---- but your neighbor's lawn was much healthier.

$14. Top brass were fired "resigned".

#15 | Posted by BellRinger

And replaced with new top brass who will spew the same trickle down economics and christofascist propaganda.

This never would have the force of gravity had the MSM not increasingly become left wing propagandists.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

When your party relies of fascist propaganda, facts can be seen as left wing I suppose. I know how mad your cult is at any news source who refused to lie about the 2020 election.

Speak,

"Because your party wanted to fund tax cuts for billionaires?"

I can't speak for other people, but I'll give you my take on mandates.

Mandates push more money into the system...but...continually escalating costs (cost drivers) pull it right back out into the pockets of insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and many more.

We need to know exactly, "where is the money going?". Then talk about, "where is it coming from"

Before long, we're right back where we started and wondering why ACA needs another cash infusion.

Without serious cost controls, the cycle never ends.

Sustainability depends on fixing the cost drivers, not just feeding them more cash.

#90 | Posted by BillJohnson

Yeah that's what happens when your party makes us the only modern country without public healthcare.

Oh, that explains it.
I thought people were moving away from the left on their own.

#5 | Posted by idenyitall

Turns out when you dump fascist propaganda into their heads 24/7 you can move them to the right.

Trump owes a lot to the tech and media billionaires.

"Do you blame Republicans for repealing it, or Democrats?"

Technically, the mandate wasn't repealed.

Just the penalty was changed to zero.

But repealed works.

#72 | Posted by BillJohnson

And why? Because your party wanted to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Do you think the solution to america's problems is taking money from the working class and giving it to the rich?

The dust up at Heritage was big.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger

OOOooo a dust up you say?

That'll change things I'm sure.

#16. You epitomize emotional cult behavior on this issue.

#17 | Posted by BellRinger

On the issue of my home being roasted? Your casual attitude doesn't reflect well on your intelligence.

It would take all night and I don't have that much energy.

#22 | Posted by BillJohnson

You play this game every time your choices are indefensible.

#10. It still requires back up because it's unreliable and doesn't match demand peaks.

Neither is a viable source of providing much more than nominal energy. And neither is nearly as "green" as they are purported. Both come with considerable environmental problems.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger

Neither one roasts the ------- planet like your precious oil does.

Why should we listen to ANYTHING from you and the rest of your stupid cult that calls climate change a hoax? You were wrong about that. You were wrong that china wouldnt go green. You were wrong that green power is too expensive.

But yeah please tell us the path to prosperity nostradamus.

I'm amazed at what I've seen in my lifetime. I honestly never thought I'd live to witness some of these changes.
#3 | Posted by BillJohnson

Me too. I never thought the nation that defeated the nazis would decided to embrace fascism not even a century later.

I never thought I'd see so many "christians" passionately embrace a leader who is the literal opposite of everything their religion teaches.

I never thought I'd see so many broke morons electing a billionaire con man to make them MORE broke and shoveling their money into the pockets of the rich.

I never thought I'd see someone attempt a coup in the USA and then go totally unpunished.

I never thought I'd see the return of diseases like measels, but this is how stupid your party has become.

Countdown til elon musk sends her a vial of his medically extracted -----.

Doesn't look like much of a superior race to me.

"Stop calling us nazis!...Also shut up I'm trying to listen to a podcaster explain why hitler was right."

Even though he's literally on tape chucking a sandwich at the guy.

Crazy.

#44 | Posted by THEBULL

Yes its crazy that a big tough stormtrooper wanted to go to court and cry about getting hit with the equivalent of a SPONGE thrown by an old man.

The tougher they act, the bigger the -----.

Oh look, the loser who missed the pinata and sucked the frat boy's dick found a mantra

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds

I asked why republicans can fund tax cuts for billionaires but not healthcare for workers, and you responded by ranting about dicks.

Interesting...

The government isn't giving any money to billionaires.

#28 | Posted by THEBULL

Really? So they just happened to get a fat tax cut at the same time that trillions were added to the deficit?

Who do you think pays to service the interest payments on that debt?

You do sucker.

But I also have to ask, how will the Dems work with this major election win going forward?
Will they suffer their usual messaging problems going into 2026, and shoot themselves in the foot, again?

#53 | Posted by LampLighter

"A liberal populist who opposes israel won! Let's do the opposite of all of that so we can keep losing! Maybe we can convince hillary to run again..."
-DNC

ICE should have hit the 79 year old with a sandwich.

#36 | Posted by visitor_

That 79 year old would cry about it less than the big tough ICE stormtrooper did.

Instead of fixing the Obummer ACA blunder Biden threw money at it Directly or indirectly and no you want to blame Republicans for the failure. How did you clowns make it past the birth canal?

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Throwing money at it is what it needed. Now repubs are cutting off that money so tens of millions of working americans are going to see skyrocketing health costs. While billionaires get tax cuts.

If repubs had money to give to billionaires, how come they didn't have money to help the working class?