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It is the "national" piece that makes it easier. Fly somewhere and you still have the taxi company right there in your phone.
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The "innovation" with Uber was that it was national and easier to use than booking a taxi.
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Yes. They lack the ability to understand that different things are different. Just grasping for any justification for their corruption, no matter how ridiculous.
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The Statue of Liberty is also public. The President can accept gifts *on behalf of the country* but not "temporary" gifts that he then keeps.
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"Scale back on white collar business-type crime" is the best news the pay masters of the GOP ever heard.
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A job with off the charts worker satisfaction.
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So... none? You'll have no real trade deals, but will try to cover that with some unilateral BS that Donnie Two Dolls tweets?
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You just know the board is debating another bribe. "Guy, maybe $16M wasn't enough. But if we bribe him again, it will totally work."
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I assume he wants that right under "Hated by his family"
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And CMS, the feds, pay for it each time (90% federal match on the cost of updating systems).
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Grok has to be frustratingly left for poor Leon.
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Administering the work requirements will eat up any "savings" (benefit cuts) derived from the work requirements. Ask anyone who works with Medicaid eligibility.
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Did he refer to himself as "an American citizen?"
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I'm not "mansplaining" and I do understand the point. Both continents are "American" and, yes, technically everyone from either are "American." That just bears no resemblance to how people actually talk about themselves and brings nothing to a discussion of birthright citizenship in the US.
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It is a colloquial use of "American." Do any Columbians or Brazilians refer to themselves as "American" is everyday speech?
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So disrespectful. She was trying to ask an important question, and the GOPers not only didn't answer or engage, but tried to shout her down and distract, hiding behind parliamentary rules.
Keep going AOC!
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"The system" doesn't work by magic. It needs people to operate it. It only looks like "the system" has failed because the GOP has spent decades working to make it fail.
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His duty, as he understands it, is to help to subvert democracy and the rule of law, in service to right wing causes. He does not serve the US or the people who live here. He serves right wing authoritarians.
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I also remember when Cleveland transferred the Statue of Liberty to his library after he left office and used it for personal purposes.
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Administering the work requirements is also costly. The effort to update systems, the additional mailings, the cost for third-party data sources for verification...
Will likely offset the bulk of the "savings" (reduced coverage) that are realized.
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Is he wrong? They did vote for him...
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When does the GOP start calling this an "insurrection" and comparing it to J6?
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If one of them gets sick you know they'll blame "the government."
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They don't want "to do it legally." They don't want policies, they want a King. They want to destroy democracy.
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Will he back his condemnation up with anything?
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The US is certainly worse off. The EU may be able to make up for the loss of US support for Ukraine, but the US keeps floating Russia-friendly "peace" plans.
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And would you say those things are better or worse now?
Hint: they are both much worse.
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Good news! We're partially and temporarily solving that problem we created for absolutely no reason.
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The GOP is on a multi-generational campaign to overturn democracy and capture the US. Trump is their vehicle for that.
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And, 100%, Trump will consider this a personal gift that he gets to keep when (if) he leaves office.
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We could probably look at his net worth in 2015 and in 2025 to see if he might be using the office to benefit himself. Just a thought.
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It is the reading, as much as the drag, that makes conservatives upset about Drag Story Hour.
If children are read to, they might learn to think, and that is a threat that can not be tolerated.
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"NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW"
Except the rich. (At least the Conservative rich)
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Yes. Saying people should be "shot like a rabid dog" is insane. You'd get along great with Kristi Noem.
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Hey! Be fair. We also get higher prices and fewer goods.
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How would that work? Congress appropriates the money, they direct spending. You want the Fed to... what?
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How refreshingly insane of you.
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Do you really think Trump, the guy who has talked about redeveloping Gaza as a resort, will be better?
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You've misread Trump. He doesn't feel shame or disgust for the suffering of other people. Trump is the only person Trump cares about. And you can't separate Trump from the MAGAs.
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Racism/bigotry is wrong, and remains widespread. Are you arguing that the MAGA GOP is less racist towards Arabs / Muslims than the Harris / 2024 Democrats?
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You think Democrats are more racist towards Muslims than Republicans? Really?
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Also the projections for Trump's presidency are several million more deaths, annually, relative to baseline. So, worse for Palestinians and millions of extra deaths worldwide.
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The point is Harris would have tried, somewhat, to constrain Israel. Trump will encourage them to "finish the job." Even the worst version of Harris would be better, for Palestinians, than the best version of Trump.
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A lot of what drives government "inefficiency" is really risk aversion. You can't "make decisions as fast as a start up" when you run, say, Social Security and it just has to work, all the time, for everyone. There are tons of meetings. Decision making is slow. That is, generally, intentional.
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"...two genocidal maniacs."
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Even by her own "logic" this bathroom isn't mislabeled. It appears to be an accessible bathroom that is available to everyone. Would she have preferred "either gender"?
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So... she couldn't hack it as a real doctor, but lacks ethics, and has turned to being a grifter.
Essentially the same story for every Trump nominee.
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Turns out the free press was not equipped for fascism and, soon, will no longer be the free press when it is fully replaced by fascist outlets.
Good job fourth estate!
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If the choice is between tepid restraint and enthusiastic encouragement...
Yeah. The former, while unsatisfactory, is the clear choice.