I’d like to believe that, but I tend to believe that with all of the times that this administration has stabbed our allies in the back, do they really want to trust us not to let it happen again?

Yeah, it’s so much better now that we’re proving to the world and our allies that our word can’t be trusted anymore, especially when we’re willing to put a man-child in charge of our nation.

What I want to know is, how do they expect to enforce the sanctions when both people responsible (in State and the Treasury) are no longer there?

Once business and the health care system (that is, insurance) monetized the ability to stay alive, it was only a matter of time before the capitalists set things up to either drain the average citizen’s pockets for care, or make sure that those who can’t pay end up dying of easily preventable diseases.

You’re right. We truly need to go back to caveat emptor on everything produced in the US. I mean, who gives a shit if during the production of these drugs, some deadly or allergenic product somehow makes its way into the formulation? That could and probably would be found with those regulations, but fuck, who needs…

The thing is, there are quite a few Democrats serving who say they’re ‘centrist’, but it’s certainly not true. Here in VA, Warner seems to be wedded to the big money rather closely, and Kaine seems to have forgotten his earlier bona fides of helping people to try and get cozier with the big money.

More people just sat home instead of voting. I would argue if anything, that’s on the voters. I don’t give a shit if you may not like a nominee, if you want to guarantee that your party (or at least the party that you believe represents you) will win, then you have to get your ass up and actively vote.

From everything I’ve read prior to your comments, it seems this is the ‘death to centrists’ thread. A lot of people seem to think that centrists are actively voting against Democratic nominees (which is probably furthest from the truth, but some people would rather not believe it).

I’d argue that it’s more due to voter apathy and aggressive movements by the right to remove the ability for certain groups of people to vote for being to blame for those.

I’ve been throwing my money at individual progressive candidates. Fuck this noise of fueling southern democrats and centrists - we don’t need their kind right now. At fucking all.

There is no “Bernie Wing” of the Party. There are Liberals and there are Centrists. Thus far, the Centrists have managed to screw things up to the point that we have Donald J Trump as our President.

Well, you could always round up the Hillary voters into a large group and shoot us all in the back of the head. That way, you’ll definitely get what you want. It may not end up being a good thing, but at least you’ll have gotten rid of those of us who you see as either dangerous or delusional.

Maybe everyone opposed to the leftist agenda is not some monolithic “alt right” boogeyman? Maybe the conversation is far more nuanced than that.

I’m an American and I’m embarrassed and disgusted by a lot of the citizens of the US. We are proving daily that we truly are the ‘Ugly American’ stereotype and then some. Oh, there’s some citizens that are decent, but there’s a lot that are showing that as a nation we haven’t learned much in the last 200+ years to…

No. It’s the standard politician procedure of answering a question with a meandering, pointless diatribe having little or no bearing on the query so that you can move on and talk about something else. Note that you seldom hear “does that (or I hope that) answers your question?”.

Pruitt is the American version of Trofim Lysenko.

You, on the other hand, appear to just believe whatever validates your ideology.

Possible. But the study they’re talking about was the paperwork somehow not being put into the proper bins and put in with regular recycling.

There might be a legal issue here, but there is no security issue.

That’s actually what our hospital has. We have locked bins that we are supposed to put all PHI into once we are done with it. It is then taken and shredded.