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Calling shenanigans on Trump saying "it is I". The man isn't a medieval fantasy villain or a mad scientist, he's from fucking Queens FFS.
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Didn't he just signed an executive order that slashes the price of pharma goods by 80%?
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Send the bitch back, the dumb cunt.
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The kid was morbidly obese at age 13. The only people to blame here are the parents. Allowing that to happen is outrageously abusive. That is enraging!
His tits were bigger than a lot of girls his age.
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After the shit they pulled with what they did with their employees making them endure torture videos of animals to make the gore releastic and all the obvious Anti-Trump rhetoric in the game?. Yeah I'm out. Sad to see a game that was "counter culture" in the 90s become what it is today.
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So Nate Silver is backpeddaling again to try vainly to save his ass in case he is wrong.
Nate Silver Hedging
This is causing quite a bit of consternation for lefties in the comments.
Nate Silver Hedging
This is causing quite a bit of consternation for lefties in the comments.
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Jokes on you, Wisconsin doesn't make it so you have to register as a certain party, just register in general. It also looks like the state will only count ballots up to election day, no 7 day shenanigans. Gotta love the state of Fonzie and The Packers!
Yeah, it's called the Electoral College, which is basically a state-wide popular vote. I know there's delegates but they usually vote for who wins the vote in the state.
Apple should stick to overpriced products, Amazon to shopping and cloud services, and Google to being incompetent.
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Imagine being paid to say, "This is what will probably happen, but maybe not."
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>can we convince the tech giants to come up with an entirely new voting system in complete juxtaposition to current United States law
Big corporations are bad unless they agree with me and/or are "tech-based".
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Boom.
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I knew something was up when Biden was tweeting about GUN CONTROL on a Sunday before the election. You don't do that if you're comfortable and in control of things. That smells like a hail mary desperation play to shore up your base.
Biden's people are shitting themselves.
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I knew something was up when Biden was tweeting about GUN CONTROL on a Sunday before the election. You don't do that if you're comfortable and in control of things. That smells like a hail mary desperation play to shore up your base.
Biden's people are shitting themselves.
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I think he did something like that, I remember him mentioning it in the first debate.
To support Trump being pro-LGBT? There was that thing he did that condemned countries that criminalize LGBT people. Whether it accomplishes anything or not, it's still a nice gesture.
The only things he's done that could be considered "anti-LGBT" are rolling back protections that they actually never even had, and banning trans people from serving in the military, which is a good thing.
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To be fair, both sides are probably shitting themselves, and you saw similar things in elections where everything was a landslide... from the landsliding party.
Nobody is calm the day before the election. Its universal to be shitting yourself and suddenly focus REALLY HARD on all the ways you can lose.
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No you don't have an internal zoom call laying that out to your team if you're not in real danger of losing according to your models.
Projecting a sense of inevitability reassures your people and dispirits the enemy. I think they feel like they're not bringing in enough votes and are probably losing. You don't tweet about gun control with the midwest on the line unless you're breaking out in a flop sweat.
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Untrue.
Trump has been fighting for transparency laws in medicine. One of the huge problems in the overall medical industry is that prices are not made transparent and oftentimes levied on the patient after treatment has already been made. How often have you heard of people needing emergency care only to wind up getting a bill two weeks later for tens of thousands of dollars? Or people who go to the doctor (which already costs roughly $100 for a basic checkup if you don't have a plan that provides a co-pay deduction-- which, incidentally, the ACA Bronze plan does not provide) are given a prescription which itself costs hundreds of dollars without insurance?
He's been fighting to lower drug costs since he got into office. He's the only guy who correctly identified that a huge issue with drug costs in America is that we subsidize literally the rest of the free world-- their cost of their socialized medicine is largely funded by the United States. Back when Trump first came into office he pissed off a lot of Europe by saying that if they actually paid their fair share of drug costs, America's rampant drug expenses would be massively reduced. I remember Germany in particular saying that wasn't fair.
And yes, at the end of last year he managed to sign the United States up for the standardized pricing list that the rest of the fucking planet benefits from and which, for some reason, nobody before him had thought to do.
I used to do physical inventories for pharmacies. I've since moved on so I haven't seen the direct impact of that (if it's gone into effect yet), but I did watch retail drug prices under Obama and Trump. After the ACA passed, pharmaceutical prices went through the roof -- double or triple the previous cost within a few months -- because suddenly everybody was forced to get insurance, and insurance companies naturally obfuscate the actual price of drugs (you're told what your payment is after insurance, and if you don't bother looking you won't see the "You paid $30.00 / You saved $750.00" (and I've seen much more absurd differentials). I would look at acquisition costs versus upcharge and there were some drugs that cost a few dollars to buy and retailed at seventy, or cost seventy to buy and retailed at over $1000.00. And they kept spiraling out of control, until the ACA was hobbled and the insurance companies didn't have a government mandate that allowed them to bullshit the people while gouging the country.
This isn't the only problem -- people have brought up before that the reason emergency rooms are so catastrophically expensive is that they have to pay for people who wander in off the streets, milk the services, and then can never been contacted to settle the bill -- but Trump is the only person in government that I've ever heard who decided not to bandage the problem (which is all socialized medicine is-- throwing more money at it without figuring out why it needs so much money in the first place) and actually looked at why the wound was festering.
Thing is, a lot of people have very significant interest in promoting things like the ACA -- insurance companies being able to charge whatever the fuck they want because everybody is forced to pay in, Rx manufacturers and distributors being able to charge whatever the fuck they want because everybody is forced to pay in, politicians who buoy themselves on the promise of free-free-free and directly benefit from shackling people to the government teat to keep them in power indefinitely -- so even with all the best intentions in the world he's fighting against a lot of forces. It doesn't help that the opposition keeps saying he has 'no plan' because technically no, Trump doesn't have a plan like the ACA or Bidencare, he's trying to find actual solutions that won't require a government plan.
And also pass enough regulatory laws that insurance companies can't discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. They keep screaming that destroying the ACA will cause all these people to lose their health coverage without mentioning that you don't need a five-thousand page monster of a bill to pass a law that makes that illegal. I'm pretty sure that is Trump's plan, to just kill the shambling monster and sign clean laws that implement the only parts of it that actually help common people, but because it's not in a huge government takeover plan it doesn't count.
Also, as a reminder, one of the reasons he was sneered at in the Republican primaries is because of how socially liberal he was. Trump supported gay marriage FAR before Obama did.
And he didn't technically ban transgender people from the military, either. Obama signed into law an eleventh-hour executive action that would force the military to provide hormone treatment and surgery for transgender recruits as part of their medical services. Trump struck that down.
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Nice to see that the Hurt Feelings police are still around and active even while the actual police are either quitting their jobs, or being made ineffective by leftist ideologues in various local governments. Oh and by "nice" I actually mean "horrifying", but hey, that's 2020 for you.
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So here's Bill Stepien, Trump's campaign manager, laying out where he thinks the state of the race is going into election day. Obviously he's paid to take a rosy view of things so make of this what you will.
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What does other countries health care plans have to do with us? Meaning how are we personally affected with our inflated health care costs because Europe offers them at a discount?
So basically not to stop funding, but figure out how the money is being used and why is it so expensive?
I thought taxes would help with a standard health care plan so people wouldn't have to worry about such a high hospital bill.
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They pay less, we pay more to cover the costs. The majority of pharma r&d is done in the US. The US subsidizes so much of the rest of the world it's not even funny.
Yes, it's a tangled web of conflicting interests and bureaucracy and regulations, and the people that benefit aren't the people who need help.
I'd be able to pay better for my own health if I wasn't paying so much in taxes. I'm not rich by any means.