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Tuco

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  1. I think the Democrats would rather try to force a split between the Republicans and the Trumpicans. Make Collins answer the question. Make every fucking Republican answer the question. You aren't really seeking a resolution of a wedge issue.
  2. Trumpsters are so fucking stupid, it's difficult to discern whether this post sincere stupidity or just a parody of stupidity.
  3. The last couple of years, I was involved with the Nebraska Dem Party and met a couple from rural Nebraska who identified themselves as being from the Bull Moose faction of the Democratic Party. If nothing else, I think it is better marketing. It is near impossible to get many rural Nebraskans to consider voting for a Democrat. The platform above could play in rural communities, but not if it has a "D" associated with it. (Note that the platform does not contain the word "abortion" in it.)
  4. I do too. It is, of course, completely contrary to the Republican rationalization when they torpedoed the Voting Rights Act. It was all about the states having unfettered the power to run their elections without federal intrusion. So, if they now want to discuss federal oversight of elections, I think it should be placed in the overall context of a governing principle rather than just whining like bitches because their guy lost.
  5. I wouldn't think the work was consistent enough for a small firm to specialize in it. Having a slug of work come through for a frantic 1-2 months ever two years would be hard to staff for. With a big firm, you could have a few specialists that lead and direct more generic resources when you need it.
  6. I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the stuttering issue. I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to getting older. But, that doesn't mean his cognitive abilities have declined. You can have speech issues without having reasoning issues. Hell, stuttering is a speech issue, but is not related to overall cognitive issues. I'm less concerned that he is speaking in a smooth, flowing manner than I would be if he was suddenly confused on where he was or what he was talking about. He has spoken numerous times, at great lengths, without significant issues on that. To use speech as a proxy for thought process is fucking idiotic.
  7. I am hoping he goes two years + 1 day. That way we can have President Harris for ten years.
  8. The FoxNews website is already referring to Biden as President-Elect and is bitching about who might be on his cabinet or what policies he might push. The closest thing they have to a headline mentioning Trump's lawsuits or refusal to concede is "Trump campaign demands transparency, accountability in vote audit push." They even have a headline attacking Biden's potential chief of staff for questioning election integrity in a "resurfaced tweet."
  9. Fair is a value statement. The reality is that there were people without coverage. If they got sick, one of three things could happen: 1. The insurance companies took that risk. (Current system.) 2. The hospital took that risk. 3. The person took that risk. In reality, pre-ACA it was split between 2 and 3. You can make the case that the person who made the decision should bare the risk. But, as a society, we don't like to watch people die without treatment, just because they (or their parents) took a risk. I can see the logical argument for it. But I don't agree with it, because it's based on a value system I no longer subscribe to. I believe people should have access to health care. The previous system really sucked at that. The current system sucks slightly less. It's past time for universal coverage.
  10. Insurance works poorly if you can just purchase it after you get sick. Prohibiting insurance companies from exempting pre-existing conditions means that someone could purchase a policy after getting a cancer diagnosis. The mandate was meant to compel more people to buy insurance to mtitigate that impact. By getting rid of the mandate, they are destabalizing the market. If people can't find policies, or if those policies are really expensive because insurance companies are pricing in pre-existing conditions, then the public will be frustrated with the ACA and support Republican efforts to repeal it. In other words, getting rid of the mandate is a way to torpedo the ACA, without saying you are trying to remove the popular pre-existing condition portion. Edit: Also, the mandate itself is unpopular. People don't like being forced to pay for things. So it is more politically expedient to attack this, knowing it will destabilize the market, than it is to attack the ACA head-on.
  11. Regarding the timing of releasing the report, FoxBusiness had an interesting report. (No, really.) Monday was the pre-planned sale of stock for several of the Pfizer execs. The CEO sold $5.6M in stock that day, representing about 60% of his company stock holdings. Execs are only allowed to buy and sell their stock on a preplanned schedule, because that's the best way to avoid insider trading. So, instead of working their stock activity around an upcoming press release, they may have worked their press release around an upcoming stock activity.
  12. Slorch, if you are equating Trump's scatter-shot, call 1-800-MORON for voter fraud, bullshit with the impeachment, just go fuck yourself. In case there is any confusion on the impeachment, Trump compromised our national interest and leveraged my tax dollars to get a foreign government to assist in his re-election effort. Worse than that, he engendered corruption in a nation that needs to overcome their corruption issue to reduce Russian influence. He sided with the fucking thugs who were murdering Ukrainian activists. He sided with them against the stated US foreign policy in the region. Many Republicans agreed with the facts of the case; that was their rationalization for not calling witnesses in the Senate. Just because impeachment was not politically obtainable does not mean it lacked merit. So fuck this right-wing bullshit gaslighting on it.
  13. Better yet, tell that official to speak publicly. Force the White House to fire him. Quiet resignations are too subtle for 2020.
  14. You have to respect the stamina. And at his age. Impressive.
  15. 52k tuition. 15.4k room and board. Granted, they wouldn't charge room and board for remote learning, but that is part of the lost revenue. If 1000 students (~11%) didn't enroll because they didn't want to spend 52k for telecourses, that's $50M in lost tuition revenue. Let's say half of the students normally live on campus, that's $65M in lost room and board revenue. Money decisions are overriding medical ones. That's certainly not just at Notre Dame.
  16. If Trump doesn't concede by the end of the week, I'd like to see a House resolution on a simple statement telling him to abide by the Constitution. Time to get some Congressmen on record, one way or the other.
  17. I've said it previously: I don't think Ukraine was the only place that Trump was using foreign policy for personal gain. Kush was running that shit for a while. We didn't even have an ambassador to the Kingdom of SA for over half his presidency. (The Kingdom murdered Khashoggi on 10/3/2018; John Abizaid was nominated on 11/13/2018, confirmed in April 2019.) There is so much weirdness that happened in that area over the last four years, and I don't have much faith that it was all for furthering American interests.
  18. What I thought was the funniest: And then they show the graph of the data. It's a huge, fuzzy point cloud. Sure, you could model it as a line. Or a polynomial. Or, maybe as exponential curve. The only reason it is a line is because someone did a linear regression on the data. And, just to be clear, this nutcase did not invent email. But he did fuck Fran Drescher.
  19. Shit, with Trump's people planning it, they'll probably end up in a White Castle parking lot.
  20. Something that gets lost in this is that there is a difference between a failure to concede ("...we want to make sure all votes are counted...", "...we are looking for a recount...") and the absolute insanity of claiming victory ("WE WON BIG", "there will be a smooth transition to a Trump second term.") Even now, the media has a problem covering Trump because they are still using traditional, relatively neutral terms to describe shit that is just completely fucking bonkers.
  21. Yeah, he's not using money to buy influence over the GOP. He's using influence over the GOP to raise money. It's not like he has some broad legislative agenda he is pushing. The great things about PACs, compared to campaigns, is that it is a lot easier to utilize the money for personal usage. For example, Devin Nunes: Nunes is awful, for some many reasons
  22. Money. Any discussion that deals with Notre Dame's (or any other college's) response to Covid needs to have money at the center of the discussion. Notre Dame was not going to be able to charge ~70k per year for telecourses. Tradition is what they sell, and that includes a beautiful campus and a cool football experience. Without it, they'd lose a significant portion of their enrollment. 10%? 30% Who knows. But the math is ugly regardless.
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