Octopus Overlords

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:17 am We have a broken healthcare system when it comes to cost. I think a majority of our country believes that to be the case. And any move towards resolving the exorbitant cost is a good one. It won't be fixed in one move though.

malchior wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:31 pm ACA increased access but costs are still out of control and outcomes are terrible.

coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:20 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:31 pm ACA increased access but costs are still out of control and outcomes are terrible.

[...]

It's called capitalism.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:10 pm Dr. Oz keeps stepping in shit.



(For those who don't know Philadelphia: Pat's and Geno's are rival cheesesteak places that really are just famous tourist traps. Locals know better.)

malchior wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:38 pm Sounds like something that is totally inevitable.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:55 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 5:20 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:31 pm ACA increased access but costs are still out of control and outcomes are terrible.

[...]

It's called capitalism.

And capitalism is always about "terrible for whom"?

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:29 pm Is that the Sham Wow guy?

El Guapo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:38 pm I feel like we're heading for a scenario where Oz wins by like 6 points and then everyone's like "how did that happen - Fetterman was *destroying* him on Twitter!"

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:41 pm Silly man, no one loses elections anymore. Mathematical impossibility is the go to term if you’re told you’ve lost.

Colorado's secretary of state's office on Wednesday said it has told two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of those races because they failed to pay the required amount by the deadline.

The office informed Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who lost her race for the GOP nomination for secretary of state, and state Rep. Ron Hanks, who fell short in his bid for the party's U.S. Senate nomination, that it was moving forward finalizing the results of the primary. Neither candidate paid the $236,000 that was due by July 15 for the recount.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:12 pmHe's definitely killing it on the social media front.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:05 am Oh, that's a given. It's beyond gross that Oz will get an insane number of votes simply because he has a (R) next to his name. Hopefully Fetterman's campaign motivates enough people to vote for him instead. He's at least doing *something* and actively engaging various communities (and trending younger with these types of ads) than what we typically see.

In the final days of Rep. Peter Meijer's close fight for his party's nomination, the Michigan Republican and his allies are slamming Democrats for meddling in Tuesday's GOP primary.

An outside group supporting Meijer -- one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump -- launched a new ad over the weekend criticizing the Democratic establishment for helping the freshman congressman's Trump-backed opponent.

"The Democrats are justifying this political jiu-jitsu by making the argument that politics is a tough business. I don't disagree. But that toughness is bound by certain moral limits: Those who participated in the attack on the Capitol, for example, clearly fall outside those limits," Meijer writes. "But over the course of the midterms, Democrats seem to have forgotten just where those limits lie."

Among the House Democrats Meijer calls out by name are Reps. Jamie Raskin and Elaine Luria, both of whom sit on the select committee. Both members, Meijer writes, have "rationalized" the DCCC's investment.

Overall, nearly $3 million has been spent on ads in the House primary, with Meijer and Gibbs locked in a close race for the nomination in the Western Michigan seat.

Gibbs, a former Trump appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has embraced Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. The former President endorsed Gibbs but has done relatively little to support his preferred candidate financially.

The DCCC, on the other hand, has spent more than $300,000 on ads that lightly criticize Gibbs and highlight his endorsement from Trump. The signal boost for Gibbs is an attempt by Democrats to give the party a more favorable general election matchup.

And it's just the latest in a string of primaries where Democratic groups have spent millions boosting far-right candidates in competitive GOP primaries.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:07 pm I think messing with Meijer's race is a bad idea, precisely because we're going to be asking Republicans in the years to come to do the right thing in the face of authoritarianism rising in the GOP, and messing with one of only 10 Republicans to vote for impeachment is only going to make that pitch harder.

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:10 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:07 pm I think messing with Meijer's race is a bad idea, precisely because we're going to be asking Republicans in the years to come to do the right thing in the face of authoritarianism rising in the GOP, and messing with one of only 10 Republicans to vote for impeachment is only going to make that pitch harder.

+1

Kurth wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:41 pm
Long quote on Peter Meijer.