Is the news here that 319 websites combined had more traffic than one single website?

Lots of countries have universal healthcare much better than the U.S. But not all of them have “single payer”. That term seems to have morphed in the political discourse to mean “universal healthcare” that is the unicorn all American progressives want (including myself) but it’s not the same thing.

Insurance guy and medical practice consultant, here. I guarantee that any implementation would be so poorly thought out and so shoddy that virtually every doom and gloom thing would come to pass.

As a person with 15 years of experience in the health policy and health care provider sectors, I can confidently say that nearly any system (bartering!? Sure why not) would be better than our current employer based private insurance model.

Enough already! Gah. This is torture. Please write about anything else. We’ll read it - I promise.

For context, we are having this discussion in a comment thread where the kicker is “[The president] doesn’t have to be the same as Hitler” a few days after white supremacists openly marched through an American city under Nazi flags, and killed somebody. Moreover, this was a reasonably foreseeable outcome on election…

Absolutely. I lump the “hold my nose” people with the virtue-signaling third-party voters. I actually blame them more than outright trump supporters, who had least had self-preserving or self-serving motives.

I donated to Clinton, I made calls for Clinton from overseas, I got my ballot as soon as I could and I voted for her, happily. Not in a swing state, but I wanted to be able to look back and say I did something to try to stop Trump. I really thought she would win easily, and I worry to this day that I should have done…

The amount of justification for not participating in democracy in some of those posts is puke-inducing. (And outright lies, like Burnerko on Clinton.)

These days I keep thinking about this post, and how so many of the staff were too cool to cast a vote against Trump. I haven’t forgotten and I hope none of you have either. And I will never click on another damn thing Pareene writes as long as I live, fuck that asshole.

MLS is fine. It’s never going to be a top tier league. It’s not going to implode in some TV revenue bubble burst. They just signed a new sponsorship deal with Adidas that increased that revenue stream by 3x. Small steps.

This is the worst take.

Welcome to today’s edition of Deadspin Shits on MLS, featuring biased reporting and a shoddy handle on facts.

I’m not really into ‘smart billy haisley’ either.

He’s a cosponsor on this bill, that’s actually binding unlike the first one he didn’t sponsor, iirc:

It doesn’t matter, they’ve already decided to hate Booker and view everything he does through the most negative lens possible.

So I’ve been pondering this for a while; the far-left is increasingly incensed at Democrats for being moderate-center, or not left enough, or trying to reach across to non-crazy Republicans. The belief seems to be that the reason Democrats are losing votes/power is because voters are sick of them being…

Seriously— I thought millennials were supposed to be more connected & informed than their stodgy boomer grandparents, or something. Instead, naah, all we’re hearing is “I didn’t get my way! Burn the whole thing down!”

This. A million times, this. We keep doing this whole “it’s about 92% what I want, but that missing 8% is really bugging me. Fuck it, burn it to the ground.” It’s the same fucking reason people wouldn’t vote for Hillary, and now we have a potato chip in the White House.

Schumer held together a caucus that ranges from Sanders to Manchin (a guy who literally shot the original ACA in an ad). But of course we need to find the negative in everything because we wouldn’t be Democrats if we weren’t always looking for something to complain about.