To answer, Mr. Tribe:
About eight thousand, give or take. (I’m not at liberty to discuss the proprietary algorithm that generated that estimate.)
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Going by the last election, the GOP base is about 24%. if there is a 17% approval rating that means that there is nearly 30% opposition from within their own party.
This could bite ⊥rump in the arse hard.
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Well, one thing is Obama’s fault. Instead of pushing for single payer health care like he promised, he tried to compromise with the Republicans by passing what was basically their scheme. And so he got to see them declare their own idea anathema, try to shut down his government over it, and drag the Overton window even further away from anything civilized, as now embodied by this scheme to let even more people die for profit.
There is probably a lesson in there about what that party has become and the sense in trying to work with it. But I wonder if even this is enough for it not to be lost on anyone who didn’t already know.
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I am borderline incoherent over this because if this goes through (that is, if the Senate doesn’t block it), these miserable evil men have made my child uninsurable because she was born with a condition. How can I convey to the two strangers who are the senators from my very red state what they are doing if, or rather when, they vote for this abomination, when her own grandfather is beyond delighted at this. I cannot wrap my brain around this.
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Not the whole world. Just the USA.
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America can’t have single-payer. It should. Every country should. But America can’t. So much money is bound up in the medical insurance business that a single payer system would basically crash the economy.
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We can if we want to.
It is possible to back away from a precipice one step at a time.
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Try disabling your logic module. Logic only gets in the way.
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Meant to post this here, not the precondition thread.
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In a way, yes.
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Pond ripples; what happens in the US affects the rest of the world, and vise versa.
Besides, I didn’t coin the quote.
From your lips to Ra’s ears. May we live to see the dawn…
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Weeelllll, the rest of the world should just learn to ignore us. For the time being, anyway.
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Obama stole my Obamacare!!!
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I’m so sorry you’re having the deal with that.
I’m still struggling with how to process just how cruel and barbaric his country has become. It’s one thing to be beaten and robbed by ordinary street criminals, who skulk away into the shadows. It’s another watch the Republicans proudly, in the name of freedom, put millions of lives at risk in order to further enrich the billionaire class; to drive around your city and read all the yard signs and bumper stickers reminding you that your neighbors are gleefully supporting it.
I feel like I’m under siege. I don’t want to be surrounded by people like this anymore, but I have nowhere to go.
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Freedom from medicine! Freedom from killing time in doctors’ waiting rooms! Freedom from tiresome hundredth birthday parties! Freedom from taking the grandkids to the park!
This is what the people clamor for!
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My mind can provide literally no other answer than “with violence”. I can’t see anything else anymore and am greatly distressed by that.
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Agreed.
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You’ll still have to pay the bastards taxes though, unless you renounce your citizenship.
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