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Happily retired software engineer. Unabashed liberal. Bengal cat lover.
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This is misleading.
Mayor Bass had finished speaking.
There were fewer mics than people at the table.
She actually reached her hand out to push the mic over to the guy on her right, BEFORE he reached for it, likely because it was his turn to speak.
Watch the video.
I'm not defending tRump.
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their major problem. The Chiefs had better up their game instead of resting on their laurels and luck, as they have all season.
We shall see.
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Interesting charts, and would be a good seed for an in-depth study on what makes some franchises - like GB - successful in the long-term, while others - Cardinals - are not.
Is it helpful for predicting tomorrow's winners? I think not.
The Commanders were woeful for several decades but fixed...
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I think Biden did a good thing, but is someone is opposed to the death penalty on moral or ethical grounds then that opposition should be absolute.
To make exceptions implies that the opposition has something to do with how heinous the crime was .
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Sounds likely that someone at X knows you are interacting with Grok 2.
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I don’t have a problem with pharmaceutical companies making a profit from what they develop.
My issue is with the inequitable distribution of pricing as exemplified by the disparity of drug prices between Canada and the US for example .
It can be done better and still have a profit motive .
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If Trump pulls the ~1,000 US troops out of NE Syria ('It's not our fight'), the Kurds probably won't be able to hold off HTS & ISIS, with Turkey pushing in from the north as well.
Make no mistake, this is mainly Turkey solving both their refugee problem and their Kurdish issue.
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HTS is an offshoot of al Qaeda.
ISIS is another big part of the rebel alliance.
Both are supported by Turkey, which will likely use them against the Kurds next.
BTW, there are 9,000 ISIS fighters locked up in the Kurdish part of NE Syria. What becomes of them?
And ~50,000 ISIS wives and children...
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Agreed.
2 centuries of having 'capitalism is the solution to everything' beaten into them by the rich, and now the scam is being revealed by their naked greed.
In their haste to become the robber barons of 1880, have they instead recreated France in 1780?
We shall see.
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Because it's done by rich people in pursuit of ever greater profits, and that's what our country is all about.
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Next up: The world starts to realize that the wrong group of rebels won - Turkey backed Daesh(ISIS) and other extremist groups both to topple Assad and to 'solve' its Kurdish problem.
Now we wonder if Trump will abandon the Kurds - he's already said it's 'not our fight'.
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Well, in all fairness to Elon not all of the 44 billion is spent buying Twitter is gone.
He could probably get 4 billion for it today .
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I think we're the only country on the list that allow healthcare administration to be run for a profit, sitting between providers, employers and patients, with little to no effective gov't involvement.
That's why Medicare's admin expenses are so low.
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Well, no.
Gov't does things differently from corporations or individual people.
Different goals, priorities, ethics, etc.
The idea that rich people should dominate the gov't is an old one, which has never worked well.
But they convinced the rubes that it would be different, and now it's 'find out'.
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Lost in the loud and well-deserved outcry about the 100% funding cut for VA healthcare is the second line.
That appears to completely eliminate funding for the national institutes of health.
I wonder what Dr. Oz will have to say about running an organization that has no funding.
Sorry, Oz .
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It wasn’t the space company, it was the $200 billion he spent to buy Trump the election.
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It’s not a real government department, just something Elon dreamed up and it looks like he is funding it at least for now
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That is just a list of some of the government departments that get funded annually through congressional appropriation.
Throwing about 10 million veterans , many of them, elderly, Some of them institutionalized, off the healthcare they earned by sacrificing for our nation.
Brilliant!
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Sorry, Vivek is already working on firing all the ethics lawyers in the government
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I’m sure Trump will happily change his tune when Vivek and Elon explain just how much money they can all grift this way.
After all, Trump doesn’t need the votes from the rubes anymore
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If there was a plan, I think it was to use the threat of recess appointments - which were probably arranged with speaker Mega Mike - to cow the GOP Senate into submission.
That plan likely got torpedo when it became clear that Gaetz was a bridge too far.
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I live in Florida and beg to differ. DeSantis has several things Trump never had or will: intelligence, conviction and determination.
Trump likes to play with things and sometimes breaks them .
DeSantis wants to break them.
And that in my book is more dangerous .
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And did not see Germany there were probably still laws on the books that made killing 6 million people illegal.
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'What's NO got to do with it, anyway?'
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Gosh, Steve, I look to you for pithy legal discourse, and here you are quoting a 99-yr-old Supreme Court tidbit as if it had any relevance today.
It's almost like you think it rises to the level of importance of a state abortion law from the 1850s, or how guns were handled in 1800.
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How ironic that what the NYT calls 'freedom' is actually the exact opposite - it's the constraint caused by effective content moderation.
It's because we aren't getting flamed and blasted by trolls/bots that we feel the freedom to express ourselves and converse like adults, even those who disagree.
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Golly, gee, how will we ever survive over here in the Good Place without Nate the Prescient?
I, for one, am willing to try to gut it out.
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Probably not.
On the other hand, humans made it through the last ice age, so perhaps we've got a shot.
The next few years are going to be pretty bad as society and our country disintegrate, and the big question is whether we remain strong enough to keep Mad Vlad and his buddy Xi from walking in.
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It's not 'picking a fight' with the GOP, it's pure domination.
He needs the entire house and senate GOP under his thumb, so he's making them cave on people they KNOW are wrong for the cabinet.
So they'll take the easy way out and agree to recess appts.
And then he owns them even more.
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It's not up to Moscow Mitch or Senate Rs.
If Maga Mike can recess the House by vote if it's for less than 3 days, then Trump can force the Senate into recess - Art. 2 Sec. 3.
Constitution is silent on how long a recess is necessary for appointments, so 3 days is plenty.