Perhaps your attitude of being “considerably smarter” and “better at reading” than your physicians comes across as condescending and priggish, leading to the old brush-off.

The other lies I hear often are:

I’m more talking about your average run-of-the-mill GOP voter, the kind of MAGA-hat wearing schmuck who doesn’t have insurance because he lost his job at a coal mine or something who is far more likely to be one of those who ends up bankrupt than they are to make a mint off of our suffering.

I’m 58 and I have never been admitted to hospital, never been ill enough for a long course of medication, don’t have children to worry about and I’m very happy to have contributed to RandomThingsAreHere’s medical costs over 35 years of paying taxes. I’m pleased he’s being treated. Happy?

It’s not even about caring for your fellow man. It’s simply knowing that you are paying less than you would for private insurance and paying into a great big pot that means, yes others might dip into it when they have need, but so can you... because everyone else is paying into the pot too.

I am happy to pay my National Insurance contributions and would be happy for it to increase to be safe in the knowledge that when my daughters have babies, or get sick, or if I need more medical care, I don’t have to bankrupt myself just to get the help I need.

The biggest lie Americans, especially conservatives, love to tell ourselves is the one about self-determination and self-reliance.

Reading this, as a UK resident, I can only shake my head in disbelief. Since last year, I have had a number of health issues all no doubt due to hitting 40 and my body deciding that the previous 20 years of ill use were enough.
I’ve had cameras in three orifices, and due for two of those orifices to receive cameras…

I had a boyfriend quite a long time ago that was sort of Harvey-esque in appearance. I was crazy about him. I really think if someone is charming and had a compatible personality looks really disappear for me. I know you can say “barf, he’s got a horrible personality” now, but when they got together I’m sure he wooed…

As I said last night, they’re a step up from David’s Bridal. They’re not much beyond a basic dress.

Harvey Weinstein aside...Marchesa dresses are fine to look at but very...predictable? No real loss here.

You are absolutely right. Clinton would absolutely have been a better president, but everything Trump has unleashed would still have been there, and it would have been galvanized by a Clinton win. The breakage of America has been inevitable. This rot would have continued to fester and poison the US from within.

On the other hand, if she had been elected, she would have certainly been impeached by now. Jason Chaffetz was positively giddy about playing the bad cop.
“Lock her up.”
“What are the charges?”
“I’ll think of something.” <pistol whip>

Anti-Clinton hysteria would have united the GOP. Congress flatly refused to work with…

To your point, this video was a huge part of the song’s success for exactly that reason - good models bring a lot to the table

I’m not saying we shouldn’t talk about this or it isn’t news worthy.

No, what I’m interested in is pointing out your specific bullshit, which you’ve now begun to backpedal. Glad you’ve backpedaled, but it doesn’t make your original pleas for silence any better.

I know I’m fucking tired of rehashing the 2016 election. Trumpo/St. Bernard /Hillary... It’s all been done to death.

I don’t know about you, but as a woman and a Democrat, I care a lot more about HRC shielding harassers from true punishment and shuffling them around her sphere of influence while selling herself as “advocate for women” (per her Twitter bio) than I do about a scumbag male comedian. I’m not dismissing what Louis did,…

But Cosby’s “God Talks to Noah” is pure genius. (What’s a cubit?)

i go back further with Woody and still have his LPs but like Cosby’s are now collecting dust.