I'm pretty sure that he called her ****'s face; in which case what's the deal?
So you can't post the word "****" on this forum?
Try putting the F word randomly in the middle. It seems to work...
Whoresfuckface
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Well the other shoe has finally dropped. Trump is finally attacking Social Security. According to the news, his plan is to reduce Medicare prescription benefits by controlling prices? That I'm OK with, but wrong approach. Reign in the pharmaceutical companies, right approach. I know, many of you Trump supporters and Gen-Xers believe that it's the American Way to produce a product for $1.25 per unit and then sell it for $12,500.00 per unit because the buyer will die if he/she doesn't get it, but I think it's wrong.
What's pissing me off is the plan to deny benefits to disabled workers. For the record, I do not receive any such benefits, although I certainly come closer to qualifying than some who do. But, people who've met the work requirements, been injured and disabled, now will not be able to receive their benefits if Trumps plan passes, which it won't. We all know people who don't seem to have anything actually wrong with them who are receiving these benefits now, and I have no problem with exposing them and removing them from the program, but that doesn't seem to be what's planned.
If the plan is to reduce the deficit and pay our debts, which I'm for, perhaps instead of destroying the safety net that helps take care of American Taxpayers maybe we should stop waging multi-trillion dollar wars on the far side of the planet? Not waste time resources and money on a wall that looks like any inner city teenager could breach in under 30 seconds? Make Hedge Fund Managers pay the same percentage of taxes that Truck Drivers and Restaurant Owners have to? Stop paying Insurance Executives 10,000 times what they're really worth? The list goes on and on...
This is why I couldn't vote for Trump. Couldn't vote for Hillary, either. I know that the Trump Faithful will denounce me for my views, for criticizing the Glorious Dear Leader who can do no wrong. Reminds me of a Richard Nixon quote: "If the President does it, it's not against the Law." I have tried hard ever since the surprising news of his election to be optimistic, to give him credit when he's on the right path, to overlook the porn-star aspects of his presidency, because I don't care about his personal life, or Clintons, but I was hoping for a fresh perspective.
I'm just skrewed in the American Political Scene. It seems to me that the Republicans will not be happy until they've reduced every working class citizen to a wage-slave in permanent debt to the Company Store. The Democrats will not be satisfied until they've accomplished autocracy via Authoritarian Socialism with a chosen elite at the helm doling out scraps to the grateful unwashed.
Where is the Middle Path?
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70% of the budget goes to wealth transfers. No one wants to touch the elephant in the room.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
70% of the budget goes to wealth transfers. No one wants to touch the elephant in the room.
Please expound. Wealth transfers?
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I'm still curious what is meant by wealth transfers, but I also am thinking about what I've posted above.
I do have to give Trump some credit for even broaching the subject regarding Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid. There is decidedly much room for improvement. On the one hand, I believe strongly that some degree of social responsibility falls to the government. We are a society, and a degree of socialism is called for in order to maintain, protect, advance, and expand our culture. Look at the history of the railroad system. Couldn't have been developed without government help. On the other hand, I don't want the kind of soul crippling socialism that exists in Great Britain or France, for example.
Take Medicaid for an example. There's so much fraud and abuse that should be contained. Two examples: One Sunday afternoon not long after TennCare had been implemented in Tennessee I was working triage in ER. A family of 7 came in, Mom, Dad, 5 kids. They'd gone to visit Auntie, who had a poodle, who had fleas. Everyone had at least a couple bites. They "need" to see the doctor! I rolled up my pant leg, pulled down my sock, and showed them about 7 flea bites. "We have insurance" they proudly announced. And so, for about $1,500 per patient TennCare paid for them to see the doctor. $10,500 of wealth transferred from the taxpayer to provide about $15 worth of medicine to this family who now is insured for the first time in their lives. I guess they thought that that's how people with insurance dealt with such things. Total waste of time and money. I'd love to see that kind of thing come to an end, but nobody wants to challenge the "perceived emergency" bugaboo.
Another Sunday afternoon case, I'm seeing a patient with 100% Social Security Disability, because he'd had a total knee replacement some years before. At that time I was 14 weeks out from the exact same procedure, still with healing scars, and I'm at work. I had not yet had the surgery to repair the multiple tears to my rotator cuff and labrum. And I was 15 years older than the patient. I think his perceived emergency was that he was out of opioids. That kind of crap needs to stop.
Don't even get me started on how much is wasted on "Emergency" care for the poor souls with total dementia and zero quality of life lingering near a hoped for release by natural death whose families demand all heroic measures be performed to prevent Grandma or Grandpa from finally attaining the peace they deserve.
I guess I just expect too much. I keep thinking that our so-called Representatives will someday represent the needs and wants of the working people who give them their power. Every year it becomes clearer to me that if you're looking for the stupidest most wasteful answer to any question, just send it to Congress.
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Government is just legalized crime. There are no "good" Presidents and the two party system is a false paradigm. Regardless, we're stuck with the bed we've made so I'm not trying to detract from what's been said because as long as folks are hashing out ideas and recognizing the sickness that is government, we are on the right track.
"Love is a dung heap, Betty and I am but a c.o.c.k. that climbs upon it to crow."
70% of the budget goes to wealth transfers. No one wants to touch the elephant in the room.
Please expound. Wealth transfers?
Anything that takes one guy's bucks and sends it to another guy. Countless methods any more. Everything from food stamps to social security to unemployment to welfare to medicaid to farm subsidies to bailouts to the howevermany bucks which helped buy the solar cells on my neighbor's roof. No idea how they estimate 70%. Not saying all of these are bad ideas; just saying good ideas are generally what drive you broke.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Government is just legalized crime. There are no "good" Presidents and the two party system is a false paradigm. Regardless, we're stuck with the bed we've made so I'm not trying to detract from what's been said because as long as folks are hashing out ideas and recognizing the sickness that is government, we are on the right track.
But we're not. We're not on any right track. No one recognizes the sickness. They all want to harness these slavering hyenas to draw their own cart. Guess what? You can't rein slavering hyenas. That's where the hyena gets the last laugh. As close as we get is, "government can't be trusted, so let's trust them with my new idea what they should do next."
When one party shoves a plan thru to bail out the biggest banks and investment houses to the tune of a trillion, followed by the other party which guarantees that literally not one single person from a single bank or investment house is held accountable for their misdeeds, meanwhile siphoning off megabillions for everything from windmill boondoggles to the Muslim Brotherhood.... you know the abominable list as well as I ... literally, pallets of cash, for Christ's sake, literally ... All I'm saying is, it's not the party, it's not the left, it's not the right, it's the power. Power corrupts. The first thing it corrupts is good intentions.
The whole schidtstorm trundles on unabated.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The funny thing is people think that our system is not broken and can be fixed by voting. Well considering who we can vote for is hand picked and absolutely rigged we will always be screwed. I'm also willing to bet that most people would not give two flying farts about the "power" if money and "untouchable" status did not come with it. Mostly the money!
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The funny thing is people think that our system is not broken and can be fixed by voting. Well considering who we can vote for is hand picked and absolutely rigged we will always be screwed. I'm also willing to bet that most people would not give two flying farts about the "power" if money and "untouchable" status did not come with it. Mostly the money!
Bingo
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This begs the question, if some entity hand-picks who the candidates are, who hand-picked Trump to run and rigged it so he'd win? And why?
He was picked because Hilary could not loose to him. Both were rigged however the lesser of two evils won thanks to the electoral college. The election in 16 was as south park put it choosing between a giant douche and a **** sandwich. Both of the "picks" sucked. The powers that be decided that no way in hell their douche would loose to that particular **** sandwich.
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I’m just a tad older than most (all?) of you guys and I can personally state that, for as long as I’ve been old enough to vote, it’s ALWAYS been a choice of the lesser of two evils. The best candidate never runs because he’s/she’s too smart to be sucked into that quagmire.
So, no matter who wins, you’re always gonna end up with the second best.....
I’m just a tad older than most (all?) of you guys and I can personally state that, for as long as I’ve been old enough to vote, it’s ALWAYS been a choice of the lesser of two evils. The best candidate never runs because he’s/she’s too smart to be sucked into that quagmire.
So, no matter who wins, you’re always gonna end up with the second best.....
Get over it.
So sayeth the Oldfart..... 🤐
Second best is hardly the point, oldfart. It's when all's you get to choose between is 342,202nd best versus 342,203rd best that you start to wonder couldn't we do better throwing a dart at a phone book.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I’m just a tad older than most (all?) of you guys and I can personally state that, for as long as I’ve been old enough to vote, it’s ALWAYS been a choice of the lesser of two evils. The best candidate never runs because he’s/she’s too smart to be sucked into that quagmire.
So, no matter who wins, you’re always gonna end up with the second best.....
Get over it.
So sayeth the Oldfart..... 🤐
Second best is hardly the point, oldfart. It's when all's you get to choose between is 342,202nd best versus 342,203rd best that you start to wonder couldn't we do better throwing a dart at a phone book.
Heh, heh, I won’t argue your point - particularly about the dart and phone book approach. I guess what I was trying to say is just get over the notion that whoever wins is the best choice. The best choice wasn’t running to begin with..... 👴🏻
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
What's pissing me off is the plan to deny benefits to disabled workers. For the record, I do not receive any such benefits, although I certainly come closer to qualifying than some who do. But, people who've met the work requirements, been injured and disabled, now will not be able to receive their benefits if Trumps plan passes, which it won't. We all know people who don't seem to have anything actually wrong with them who are receiving these benefits now, and I have no problem with exposing them and removing them from the program, but that doesn't seem to be what's planned.
If the plan is to reduce the deficit and pay our debts, which I'm for, perhaps instead of destroying the safety net that helps take care of American Taxpayers maybe we should stop waging multi-trillion dollar wars on the far side of the planet? Not waste time resources and money on a wall that looks like any inner city teenager could breach in under 30 seconds? Make Hedge Fund Managers pay the same percentage of taxes that Truck Drivers and Restaurant Owners have to? Stop paying Insurance Executives 10,000 times what they're really worth? The list goes on and on...
This is why I couldn't vote for Trump. Couldn't vote for Hillary, either. I know that the Trump Faithful will denounce me for my views, for criticizing the Glorious Dear Leader who can do no wrong. Reminds me of a Richard Nixon quote: "If the President does it, it's not against the Law." I have tried hard ever since the surprising news of his election to be optimistic, to give him credit when he's on the right path, to overlook the porn-star aspects of his presidency, because I don't care about his personal life, or Clintons, but I was hoping for a fresh perspective.
I'm just skrewed in the American Political Scene. It seems to me that the Republicans will not be happy until they've reduced every working class citizen to a wage-slave in permanent debt to the Company Store. The Democrats will not be satisfied until they've accomplished autocracy via Authoritarian Socialism with a chosen elite at the helm doling out scraps to the grateful unwashed.
Where is the Middle Path?
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
No one wants to touch the elephant in the room.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
BUT
If Elmer Fudd was running against a democrat I would vote for Elmer.
I do have to give Trump some credit for even broaching the subject regarding Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid. There is decidedly much room for improvement. On the one hand, I believe strongly that some degree of social responsibility falls to the government. We are a society, and a degree of socialism is called for in order to maintain, protect, advance, and expand our culture. Look at the history of the railroad system. Couldn't have been developed without government help. On the other hand, I don't want the kind of soul crippling socialism that exists in Great Britain or France, for example.
Take Medicaid for an example. There's so much fraud and abuse that should be contained. Two examples: One Sunday afternoon not long after TennCare had been implemented in Tennessee I was working triage in ER. A family of 7 came in, Mom, Dad, 5 kids. They'd gone to visit Auntie, who had a poodle, who had fleas. Everyone had at least a couple bites. They "need" to see the doctor! I rolled up my pant leg, pulled down my sock, and showed them about 7 flea bites. "We have insurance" they proudly announced. And so, for about $1,500 per patient TennCare paid for them to see the doctor. $10,500 of wealth transferred from the taxpayer to provide about $15 worth of medicine to this family who now is insured for the first time in their lives. I guess they thought that that's how people with insurance dealt with such things. Total waste of time and money. I'd love to see that kind of thing come to an end, but nobody wants to challenge the "perceived emergency" bugaboo.
Another Sunday afternoon case, I'm seeing a patient with 100% Social Security Disability, because he'd had a total knee replacement some years before. At that time I was 14 weeks out from the exact same procedure, still with healing scars, and I'm at work. I had not yet had the surgery to repair the multiple tears to my rotator cuff and labrum. And I was 15 years older than the patient. I think his perceived emergency was that he was out of opioids. That kind of crap needs to stop.
Don't even get me started on how much is wasted on "Emergency" care for the poor souls with total dementia and zero quality of life lingering near a hoped for release by natural death whose families demand all heroic measures be performed to prevent Grandma or Grandpa from finally attaining the peace they deserve.
I guess I just expect too much. I keep thinking that our so-called Representatives will someday represent the needs and wants of the working people who give them their power. Every year it becomes clearer to me that if you're looking for the stupidest most wasteful answer to any question, just send it to Congress.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
When one party shoves a plan thru to bail out the biggest banks and investment houses to the tune of a trillion, followed by the other party which guarantees that literally not one single person from a single bank or investment house is held accountable for their misdeeds, meanwhile siphoning off megabillions for everything from windmill boondoggles to the Muslim Brotherhood.... you know the abominable list as well as I ... literally, pallets of cash, for Christ's sake, literally ... All I'm saying is, it's not the party, it's not the left, it's not the right, it's the power. Power corrupts. The first thing it corrupts is good intentions.
The whole schidtstorm trundles on unabated.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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So, no matter who wins, you’re always gonna end up with the second best.....
Get over it.
So sayeth the Oldfart..... 🤐
Years ago, there was an election in Europe, where one comment was to vote the crook, not the facist.
The other problem is assuming that people voting are somewhat intelligent and have some understanding of anything.
They aren't and they don't.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.