2024 U.S. Presidential and State election thread - I'm gonna... I'm gonna... VOOT!!! I'm VOOOOOTING!!!

[AnotherPleb]

High quality healthy food is expensive, which schools don't want to pay.

Well yeah, the administration wants that money for their annual raises.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

He's St. Paul reincarnated! #OurJew #HonoraryGoy

He had MPC's seal of approval as our Jewish Goebbels. The man covered himself in American Flag themed clothes when he graduated from High School, he's an American Patriot who happens to be Jewish, he treats the press like retards, and he hates immigration and globalism. He's the exception that proves the rules, and in this house Stephen Miller is a hero.

The pick for UN Ambassador was always going to be pozzed. You can't expect Trump to put Alex Jones or something there. It's a globohomo institution.

It's not that serious a position either. People need to remember that some positions are prestige positions, not ones that influence policy. You give them to your loyalists that you don't necessarily trust with policy, but you still want to reward.

Nigerians and Central Africans in general are based.

The Igbo are, highest IQ in Africa. I knew a family that was connected over there, I think they may have been connected to some of the Biafra type stuff, the correct side just not the one that won. Smart people, not great people though. My family may or may not have helped a woman they brought over as "family" to exploit as basically slave domestic labor "Disappear" into a good, productive job. Free Biafra, keep the Igbo over there, if any African tribe can succeed it's them.

 

[Uncle Buck]

The ACA was supposed to lower medical costs, increase the number of insured to near 100% (mostly through Medicaid eligibility expansion), and improve the overall health of Americans through the increased access to paid-for-by-someone-else medical care

It failed on all three

It increased the number of insured about 10%, from ~80% to ~90%

It led to medical costs increasing at an even greater rate than it was increasing before, because healthcare institutions used the increased government money to add a shit ton of new administrative positions at six figure salary+benefits

Americans are less healthy overall than they were before it

It's a fiscal and medical failure

Of course there are people who it benefited, there is never a government program that benefits absolutely no one

Did it do more bad than good? Uh, yeah. It's not even close

Of course it failed. It did absolutely nothing to address cost drivers.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

every time i bring up her show, everyone from all walks of life as long as they're lower income and white said that was the most authentic show on tv.

It still holds up too. I rewatched it recently and laughed my ass off the whole way through.
It also touched on some important topics. Struggling to pay your bills, motherhood, domestic violence, struggling to get work, how difficult abortion is (/should be) even when medically necessary, taxes being overly complicated and bullshit, normal struggles from married couples, etc.
DJ was a little psycho pervert though. And the running joke being he's a paste eating retard.
Would highly recommend.

 

[draggs]

I'm not a fan of the ACA at all, but I'm playing devil's advocate as I am wont to do. It did help me and a lot of others in a specific way.

Yes like I said

The question is could people have been helped in a better way and the answer is yes they could have been

As an example, that medicaid expansion money could instead have been used to pay for home care for the elderly at a much lower cost than putting them in nursing homes, which also would have been better for the quality of life of those elderly people

Instead we have millions of old people who have too many assets and too much income to qualify for medicaid paying for home care, but they don't have enough money to pay for it themselves, so they are forced to drain all their assets and income moving into a nursing home where they have a bad quality of life until they die of despair, and what they pay in comes nowhere near to satisfying what the nursing homes charge, so the government has to pay the balance anyway

 

[Sithis]

Third: Let’s look at methadone. Shit works, even if a good portion of the users abuse it. And it’s dirt cheap. No patents… Well, let’s include a bunch of bullshit weekly “counseling” sessions and make them mandatory, so we can bill the government 800$ a month instead of $50 or $100.

The counseling requirement is because you can't just treat addiction by throwing fucking painkillers at people. Addicts love Subutex and methadone and just taking the drug typically just switches their addiction, the counseling requirement is so they actually start taking steps to change their shitty lives and improve instead of just go from using illegal drugs to legal ones.

There is a lot of abuse and waste behind the scenes not just in addiction treatment but all medicine - you're not going to see that change because everyone has some stake in it and the cost of expecting some waste is less than fucking with a system that keeps people alive and functional in society. JD Vance probably credits addiction treatment for his mom being alive right now and part of his familys life instead of dead from an overdose. I'd rather some of my tax dollars get wasted while others help Americans improve their lives than see a single cent go overseas so sand people can bomb each other.

 

[invisibult plus+]

Is this a Naruto parody?

yes
it's amazing how much it works for this situation though

It is.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

It still holds up too. I rewatched it recently and laughed my ass off the whole way through.
It also touched on some important topics. Struggling to pay your bills, motherhood, domestic violence, struggling to get work, how difficult abortion is (/should be) even when medically necessary, taxes being overly complicated and bullshit, normal struggles from married couples, etc.
DJ was a little psycho pervert though. And the running joke being he's a paste eating retard.
Would highly recommend.

I hate to break this to you, but you know how they're always being snarky cunts at each other?
literally whedon patient zero

 

[Mr Bunny]

He had MPC's seal of approval as our Jewish Goebbels. The man covered himself in American Flag themed clothes when he graduated from High School, he's an American Patriot who happens to be Jewish, he treats the press like retards, and he hates immigration and globalism. He's the exception that proves the rules, and in this house Stephen Miller is a hero.

If I remember right Miller was the one who wrote the false song of globalism speech.

 

[Collections Agent]

Don't give into despair...
Let's all tank the RUMP economy!
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If you really care, you'll help destroy the country to own RUMP.

>Conservatives think the left is shit with money and are destroying the economy
>Let's own them by attempting to destroy the economy by being smart with money

Ok

 

[Not Really Here]

If you're going with Thomas Sowell, "The Vision of the Annointed" might have a fair amount of impact in its ability to explain how and why the Harris campaign, and the Ds more generally, just lost so bad.

Or you could just go to YouTube search "Thomas Sowell reaction" and find out blacks have been making videos watching Tom for a few years.
If you add them all up, there's probably a hundred million views, and a billion watch hours of based econ man.

 

[Postal_Rat]

Don't give into despair...
Let's all tank the RUMP economy!
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If you really care, you'll help destroy the country to own RUMP.

Wow trump is turning liberal man children into fiscally responsible adults miracles never cease

 

[mandatorylurk]

Zeldin seems like a good pick, and I'm guessing it got RFK's approval so he can do what he wants.

It also seems like Ric Grenell is going to be SOS but it hasn't been announced yet.

 

[God of Nothing]

It is.

he's even orange
and biden has eyes that bleed
amazing

 

[shekelshoah666]

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Zeldin seems like a good pick, and I'm guessing it got RFK's approval so he can do what he wants.

It also seems like Ric Grenell is going to be SOS but it hasn't been announced yet.

So Based. Grenell is based as SoS as well he had Trumps back bigtime and helped BTFOing the Russiagate shit.

 

[Nuns with guns]

Elon is now part of the Trump family.

 

[Mr. Frank Einstein Ràtheo]

Literally the same psyop the Nazis pulled on Germany.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Big Mike didn't understand basic food quality as a logistical challenge. High quality healthy food is expensive, which schools don't want to pay. So it had to be cheap, which is necessarily unhealthy. Combined with the lack of a free market in schools, Big Mike's bad food was something they had to eat. They couldn't avoid it.

It's actually a good object lesson in how Communism doesn't work as a market force.

I luckily got out of school before these rules came into effect but I remember that they would force kids to take stuff like fruit, which they didn't want and ended up just going straight to the dumpster.

On the House they won't let Miller-Meeks (IO-1) claim victory because of the close call and military/overseas ballots. AP hasn't called CO-8 even though Caraveo (D) conceded. In OH-9, where the Democrat candidate leads by 1,200 there's still a red county that's not 90% counted and there's still 22k votes left to be counted. What's the holdup?

 

[Jade Philosophies]

If the senate doesn’t play ball let’s just make our own senate.

 

[Drive-by Farts]

In Aus, we recently had a vote to give the Aboriginal people a 'Voice', an elected position that (indistinct lefty mumbling).

One of the biggest groups to vote against it was.... immigrant communities. My parents were compltely baffled how that could be the case... after dragging me to a play where a bunch of indigenous actors called everyone else 'visitors'.

The amount of effort it took to not call out the obvious then and there was agonizing. Indigenous and Immigrant minorities are NOT friends, they are rivals for resources, and every anti-colonialist narrative can become an anti-immigrant one in a second.

Yes I’ve been saying for a long time that you cannot import a Navajo or a Hopi or a Cherokee from anywhere else. Every immigrant that comes into the country only increases the percent of people in this country that are not Native American. If European colonization was genocide, then Asian and African immigration is genocide for the Native Americans as well. Both North and South America have to cut off the Old World entirely. It’s happened too many times.

Also - cartels are bringing fentanyl to the reservations. A lot of them are dying.