It will absolutely require that hospitals comes under the control of the federal government, as I have already explained (you have yet to explain why you think they will remain independent and for profit). In this whole context I have been talking about how these ideas are going to be presented to the voting public.…

. . . and you proved that you and your ilk are going to eat shit when it comes to framing this part of the argument because you have no idea how to respond except to fall back on hysterical semantics. Which was the main part of my original point.

I realize that in places like the UK the NHS literally controls nearly all the hospitals as well as the administration of payment, and I realize that you think that what you’re suggesting only involves the administration of payment part. You can call this what you like, and the government may not literally take…

Bernie always goes a step further saying that we need an to reign in big pharma and presumably the cost patient services. If there are no insurance companies and they plan on heavily regulating pharma companies and hospitals, they may not be doing it by name, but the plan is to integrate the whole system vertically.…

Also, the talking point vilifying insurance companies is easy. Most people have had some sort of bad experience 1st hand, or 2nd hand, dealing with their health insurance. But this also requires the nationalization of private hospitals and that talking point is where Dems will have their asses handed to them.

They were clearly thinking of dewbacks. The giant lizards that live in the desert planet of Tatooine

We know for fact that there was attempts by Russians to tamper with our elections. We know for a fact that Manafort, Flynn, and Stone all had contacts with Russians connected to Putin. If they weren’t Russian assets they sure as hell acted like Russian assets. And if they wasn’t a conspiracy they sure as hell all lied…

Or the one that lies to our faces everyday to cover for a lying, corrupt, dangerous nincompoop?

Edwin Sharpe and the Magnetic Whatnots are about as “modern” hippie as it gets. They even smell like the OG 1967 version.

They’re going to regret not booking Green Day when it starts raining.

I meant non-white non-blights. I’m not sure how I could’ve messed up such a straight forward sentence.

Well okay, but we also gifted the world such non-white blights as Barbara Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Travis Scott, and Beyonce.

Did you purposely leave out cities in red states? Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, and San Antonio all rank among the top 9. Boston, Portland and Miami don’t even rank in the top 20. And yes, our densely populated economic hubs and cultural centers should have more pull than empty land in North Dakota. That seems pretty easy…

It’s kinda fascinating to see this play out in real time the week that Leaving Neverland comes out. The defense has been the exact same. Both Jackson and Kelly settled out of court on the original accusations, so they could maintain the argument that “this is all about money”. They have victims that they have trotted…

In the Eastern Conference.

You’re probably right. His favorite talking point currently is that the Mueller investigation shows that there is a “two tiered justice system”. Not in the sense of rich and poor, or black or white, but that Republicans are treated unfairly by a system that favors democrats. This is how insane his show has gotten.

It’s even funnier when you consider most evangelicals don’t like the Pope nowadays. So Trump gets the big thumbs up from Jesus, god’s vicar on earth is some wacky lefty who believes in global warming and the value of an egalitarian society.

More difficult than you think. It’s not a binary like you are characterizing it and for local elections the laws actually vary from state to state. A person can be residing here legally and still not be a US citizen. They could be on varying stages of VISA, depending on marriage, or on whether their parents are…

It took way more “work” to discover new music pre-internet. I think the difference is that things we far more splintered back then. People had a scene that they primarily followed, they were goths, punks, hip hop heads, ravers/house, metal heads, country fans, rock/grunge, or whatever and there was overlap but you…

The overall aesthetic of recorded music has changed. Pop music or “top 40 music” (there’s are term that should give a hint of my age) sounds pretty homogeneous to me and this is across most genres. To me those Imagine Dragon songs have all the same sonic qualities of the rap and pop that I hear on commercials and…