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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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47 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

You don't even try to disguise your trolling anymore.  Just said fuck it I am owning it. 

Also, saw you MAGA meltdown earlier. You OK? 

I have a Government degree from UT. You're an embarrassment to my diploma. 

Also you've literally said nothing EVER on this board but shitty hackass pro Trump guff. Lockstep with the pipebomber et al. 

I thought you were some kind of independent.

Bullllllllshit.

You're the worst fuck on the net. William Shatner, who is an ass clown himself, should sue you. 

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9 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Which is only evidence that the penalty was not enough.

 

I don't know what the right mandate would have been. Some data suggests that 80% of premium price might be a sweet spot. 

Penalty should have been 100% yearly premium for the cheapest plan on your state exchange and autoenrollment in it. 

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Twitter looking to update its policies for dickhead politicians that violate its user agreements.

Twitter still won’t remove Trump’s tweets that violate its rules. But it will label them.

The next time a politician, dignitary — or perhaps a president — makes an utterance that violates Twitter standards, the message might be accompanied by a note that expands on the 280-character tweet, a top official with the company said Wednesday.

Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive tweets that break its rules but remain in the public interest, said Vijaya Gadde, the company’s head of legal, policy, and trust and safety. It’s an effort to stem offensive content and hate speech and follows comments last year by chief executive Jack Dorsey, who said he is rethinking core parts of the platform to stem harassment and other abuses.

“One of the things we’re working really closely on with our product and engineering folks is, ‘How can we label that?’ ” Gadde said in a response to questions from the Post’s Silicon Valley correspondent, Elizabeth Dwoskin. “How can we put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform.”

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Gadde revealed the initiative at the Technology 202 Live, a Washington Post Live forum in San Francisco that serves as an extension of The Post’s tech newsletter. Gadde said the efforts to provide context will serve to maintain Twitter’s community standards while keeping the platform a place for policy revelations and public conversation that may be in the public interest.

In Twitter’s present iteration, she said, “when we leave that content on the platform there’s no context around that and it just lives on Twitter and people can see it and they just assume that is the type of content or behavior that’s allowed by our rules.”

Though the company has an exception for newsworthiness, Twitter draws a line around content that is violent or direct threats of harm.

“There is absolutely a line of a type of content, an example being a direct, violent threat against an individual that we wouldn’t leave on the platform because of the danger it poses to that individual,” Gadde said. “But, there are other types of content that we believe are newsworthy or in the public interest that people may want to have a conversation around.”

Gadde said Twitter will not remove follower counts or like or other core aspects of the Twitter experience. But she hinted that those icons could be hidden from view as part of the new user experience unless a user specifically seeks them out, design changes the company is testing.

President Trump, who has turned to Twitter as his preferred mechanism for rapid-fire messaging, has tested its community standards repeatedly. Dorsey’s has acknowledged criticism that his website had failed to stem the tide of hatred and issues such as “echo chambers” that had festered on his website.

Dorsey has generally stuck to a line that Trump’s comments are inherently newsworthy, and thus should remain on the site, despite criticism that some tweets have bordered on abusive. In August, Trump called a former aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, a “dog.” He has regularly used the platform to attack political enemies, such as the late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Clinton and he has shared an image of his political foes behind bars. Trump has also retweeted unverified anti-Islam videos and has posted videos depicting, among other slights at the media, CNN being squashed by a shoe.

There are concerns that the president’s Twitter behavior has influenced politicians on the local and state level, as well. And politicians overseas have been accused of abusing the platform with inflammatory rhetoric.

Twitter declined to comment further on the initiative, answer questions concerning who the new notation standard would apply to or specify the form the annotations would take.

 

 

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18 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

As a physician, I can confirm this.  Again, if I had a dollar for every time some clown was bitching about obamacare, but was only getting an appointment/care because of obamacare, I'd have 3fiddy. 

 

Honest question:

Do you make any attempt to educate these clowns? "Well, sir, if it wasn't for Obamacare, you would be paying $500 for this visit instead of a $30 copay."

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7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Now that the witch hunt is over, MAGA is coming for justice.

You were born too late huh?  Back in the real MAGA days, they'd just get the lynch mob together. I know you long for those days. 

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29 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

The fucking President of the United States is tweeting a directive to the FBI and DOJ to investigate the Jussie Smollett mess.

This timeline sucks moldy ass.

Technically Trump was just reporting they were looking into it.  It’s his usual mob boss lingo where he’s not necessarily issuing a directive.  

It’s depressing that Trump is concerned with the Jussie Smollett case but not surprising. 

This didn’t happen but if a nefarious actor could orchestrate something like the Jussie Smollett case from start to finish it would make a great manufactured media distraction that pushes on all kinds of sociopolitical divisions. 

Again, not alleging anything because I have no basis for it but just appreciating how everyone in the media, including the President has exploited his case to churn the rabble. 

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18 hours ago, tjhooker said:

It's already happening.  You notice a difference?  

How about start with this?  Allow catastrophic coverage only plans.  Currently not allowed. There are list countless codes which must be covered by a plan.  Makes a plan like catastrophic coverage only not allowed.  Why does a healthy 27 yr old need comprehensive coverage if they don't want it?  If you want to discuss aspects of the ACA create a thread.  It will siderail this thread more than it is. 

 

What is insurance?

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3 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Technically Trump was just reporting they were looking into it.  It’s his usual mob boss lingo where he’s not necessarily issuing a directive.  

It’s depressing that Trump is concerned with the Jussie Smollett case but not surprising. 

This didn’t happen but if a nefarious actor could orchestrate something like the Jussie Smollett case from start to finish it would make a great manufactured media distraction that pushes on all kinds of sociopolitical divisions. 

Again, not alleging anything because I have no basis for it but just appreciating how everyone in the media, including the President has exploited his case to churn the rabble. 

Why is he not looking into the cardi b druggings and robberies?  I mean if he is going to direct the FBI based on TMZ, he may as well go after the worse crime. 

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Just a pop in- Weather is too nice!

First off, IF I was a democrat, my main focus would be on the questions Trump REFUSED to answer.  Nearly all of which related to obstruction.  Without answers from Trump on this matter OF COURSE!!!! it would be hard to indict on obstruction, a man that the current Attorney General views as impossible to indict.  My POLITICAL strategy would be to focus very, very much on the quesitons that Trump refused to answer. Which may or may not be in the report.  His refusal to answer those quesitons, I believe, would allow for a stick to blugeon not only Trump but the GOP.  I think there is a LOT to be gleaned from the questions Trump refused to answer that probably seem pretty straighforward in a lot of cases.

And from the as fucking crazy as our government is category...it got even a little crazier.  Because of complete incompetence.  Stephen Moore, Trump's "big brain" TV recognizable nominee to the Fed, owes the IRS $75K, for improper deductions.  This is the most incompetent White House any of us are likely to ever see.  

Tight lines... Spring has Sprung!

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16 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

Obviously she wants to make a point.  I mean, more than she wants either a moment of reverence or actual communication with a higher power, she wants every Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, etc, legislator to know who’s running the fucking show.  

In other words, it seems to me to be right in line with everything else today’s fake evangelicals (i e Trumpkins) do that’s antithetical to the behaviors that Jesus modeled in the New Testament.  

Only the best "Christians".

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pennsylvania-state-rep-stephanie-borowicz-prayer-muslim-offended-gop-swearing-in/

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57 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

you missed the point on that completely.  I was saying if someone doesn't want to buy insurance or maybe just wants catastrophic coverage why force them to buy something they dont want?  

Who do you think ends up paying for his treatment if he gets sick and it falls outside of his coverage?

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2 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

you missed the point on that completely.  I was saying if someone doesn't want to buy insurance or maybe just wants catastrophic coverage why force them to buy something they dont want?  

 

17 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Who do you think ends up paying for his treatment if he gets sick and it falls outside of his coverage?

 

tj seems to think the ideal situation would be to just let them die in the street if they don't have insurance. The bodies would eventually rot away.

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5 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

ridiculous.  doesn't mean we don't have safety nets.  That's so draconian.  Like it is one way or the other nothing in between.

The problem is that the safety net, in this case the emergency room care the person would receive even if they didn't have insurance, is ultimately paid for by those of us with insurance in the form of higher premiums.

A better system would be for everybody to have health insurance. Single payer (the government) would be the easiest and cheapest way to do that, paid for by tax dollars, like we do with medicaide and medicare. But since that would be SOCIALISM (gasp!), we got the ACA instead.

If your beef with the ACA is the mandate, then you should be pro-single payer.

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

His rants are barely registering anymore.  Just so childish.

I agree, which is the scariest of all things to me. They have been normalized. There are countless things almost daily that in the past would have sounded alarms and raised red flags. Now, oh it's Thursday.

I hope there's enough liquor on the ledge with Brisket. 

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9 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

The problem is that the safety net, in this case the emergency room care the person would receive even if they didn't have insurance, is ultimately paid for by those of us with insurance in the form of higher premiums.

and property tax and sales tax and income tax and borrowing more against the Federal Debt as our state and federal gov'ts end up paying the hospitals for indigent care.  but lets just keep putting that cost of healthcare at its highest and most inefficient cost point on the Federal credit card so long as WE dont have to pay for it RIGHT NOW. its so fucking stupid. but thats essentially the economic policy of the Republican party for the last 40 years. 

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Just now, tjhooker said:

dont we do that already with medicaid and chips?

No. You have to qualify. Not everyone does. Say you have a single male with a job, but who has no employee provided coverage. He chooses not to purchase health insurance because he's young.

What do you think happens when he gets sick or injured and receives medical care? Who do you think ends up paying for that if he can't or won't?

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20 hours ago, tjhooker said:

Comical, you think you know me.  You know nothing.  I am not going to doxx myself but as specific to the medical industry I will get is eye care.  I also helped larger groups negotiate with hospital networks and managed care ACOs to create alliances (collaborative care networks) to help them in their HEDIS scores.  Specifically with their diabetic population in terms of that measure.  

Just stop.  I think you're blowing smoke about speaking at those conferences.  

Lol. I’ll dox myself.  Take it pvt.  Dumbass. 

 

Or call John Orsini the CFO at NW and ask if chitowndoc knows about ACA/VBM.  He will know exactly who you’re talking about and laugh at some two bit pussy like you questioning me. 

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25 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

no one got on an elevator and counted?  you don't even need a surveyor or be able to read deed records.  just send in some summer intern who's one of the partner's moron kids that daddy paid to get into wharton. 

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