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Joan Sheehan's avatar

God dammit! We need Dems with some backbone and the ability to get a few Republicans from drinking the koolaid!

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

I WISH the Republicans were drinking the Kool-Aid. It would get rid of them quickly.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

(Good point.)

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Rich Colbert's avatar

I observed some of the hearing held by the MAGA granny, Virginia Foxx which was simply theater. This morning I watched Jefferies, an excellent orator, plead for “we the people”, more theater. The bill passed by ONE vote with only 2 R’s voting against rewarding billionaires at the expense of a majority of their constituents. Talking is NOT getting it done. Meanwhile the beast in the WH belittles a visiting head of state! Shame on the USA!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

We are past talking, aren’t we?

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Rich Colbert's avatar

Long past.

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Sherry Sauerwine's avatar

Speaking of watching, Rich, I wonder if someone will broadcast the draft-dodging demented sociopath's graduation speech at West Point? I cannot imagine having worked for four years for a degree from WP and embarking on my multi-year military commitment and having to listen to that lunatic who lied his way out of military service with a fake bone spur.

My husband served in the Navy for six years during the Vietnam War, my cousins were wounded in that war, I lost friends who died from rare cancers due to agent Orange Exposure, I have a close friend who was an AF nurse who brought back to the US the burned and mangled bodies of the young men wounded in combat in that war and then treated the wounded at Walter Reed from our adventures in Iraq.

I cannot fathom being in any way part of the military and having to listen or see that inhumane obscenity at an event.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Same. I think of my dad, a Vietnam veteran and his injuries from that war, having to suffer through this.

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Rich Colbert's avatar

Truth….I just finished watching a series on Netflix about WW2. On this Memorial Day weekend many will be enjoying beer, burgers and dogs without thinking about the heroes who stepped into the hell of war to save democracy and preserve the freedoms so many take for granted. Very depressing!

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Jac's avatar

For the love of all that is holy, the wealthy don't need a tax cut and more money! Regarding healthcare, health insurance should also be a non-profit business. All payments should support the practitioners, administrators, supporting staff, educational programs, equipment, and facilities - responsible for helping sick people! (Not to stockholders!!)

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Susan Campbell's avatar

They do not need any more money. That's for certain. But they DO offer fat campaign donations that lure those politicians like honey. We need campaign finance reform yesterday.

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Jac's avatar

Amen to that!

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Sherry Sauerwine's avatar

As per the norm, yesterday, the toad who represents my district in the House, Jeff Van Drew (R-District 2- NJ) put his signature on a letter in which Repugs moaned that passage of the Big Beautiful Bullshit Bill would harm rural and small hospitals. Naturally that letter got a lot of play making the R's who signed it look as though they "cared." LOL Of course, come the middle of the night, the Van Drew toad along with the other spineless Trump Toadies voted to screw their constituents and the rural and small hospitals by voting for the BBBB. Never expect a Republican to do the right thing - ever. The worst part is that the goobers who live in this red nest in southern NJ will re-elect the bootlicker as they watch themselves and their neighbors lose Medicare and see the smaller hospitals in the area collapse but -- hey, they'll still have their Trump flags to fly from the pickup and their ugly red hats and T-shirts.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Interesting how the toadies came out at night, yes? Did they think we'd sleep through it?

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Sherry Sauerwine's avatar

Roaches, rats and Republicans -- the night creatures.

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Sam Luchow's avatar

There's no way I'm eating any of those fucks. They ain't clean.

I'd vote seven times for any candidate who ran on getting private equity out of the healthcare business.

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Patricia A. Garcia's avatar

Amen! Removing the middleman (Insurance companies) would save big bucks. For-profit healthcare is the silliest notion anyone ever dreamed up.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Isn't it? And then tying it to employment ranks up there, too.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

(I love your address, Old Government Road.)

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

And the consultants seem still to be saying, to be heard saying “Move to the middle to pick up voters.” And many of the Dem pols to be repeating it over and over to themselves and each other, mugging people on the left who try to move the party.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I am not sure, in these times, the answers lie in the middle. I have believed that in the past, even while I was always cheerfully to the left.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

I am sure that it is not.

And as the left has stretched and stretched for the center, the post Reaganite right has delightedly moved further right.

Leaving the center very right, and very compliant to GOP slogans, taxonomies, pretended goals, and accusations.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That is true. The center is farther to the right that it once was, to the peril of all of us.

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Patricia A. Garcia's avatar

absolutely...Dems are stuck in place.

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Sharyn Pliska's avatar

I’m sorry, but never having been wealthy and never needing to be, WHY DO THESE PEOPLE NEED MORE MONEY? I just don’t get it. They have more money than they can spend in 10 lifetimes, so is the point to be number one on some Fortune 100 list? To take the food out of starving children’s mouths for a place on a list?

I will never understand the logic. Or the need. ⚔️

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Patricia A. Garcia's avatar

I think the simple answer is Power. Power over all things that could make them uncomfortable, plus making sure no one gets hands in their pockets.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

They certainly are anxious to keep their cash, aren’t they?

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I'm with you. How many houses are enough?

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Sharyn Pliska's avatar

Or golf courses

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