Not really... The Israelis have their own country that we have backed at full throat for years. Israel is one of the most powerful countries in the Middle East. If anything, they’d be the Turks in this situation, with the Palestinians being the Kurds. With the exception that the US finds the Kurds useful, and the…

Yes, both my grandmothers had dementia - one of them has passed, and the other one is now calling my mother “that woman” who’s going after my dad’s wealth (mom made more than dad when she was working). So I do see the problems with Biden not remembering names or misplacing events with dates, but people did go after…

Remember that if any one of these guys is nominated, they are going to go against a man who is around their age, claiming he’s more fit that they are for the presidency because he’s clearly a genius and doesn’t have heart attacks... I say, lets not frame it that way, cause I’d vote for anyone of them instead of the…

Y?

Yes, yes “we” as a whole didn’t vote for the asshole. But we did, as a whole, got to see him use Clinton’s bout of pneumonia as a weapon to show that she is someone physically incapable of doing the job. I am also not saying that the presidency is the easiest job in the world - what I am saying is framing both…

But here’s the thing: it didn’t really come up in regards to their ages til they actually made the gaffes (again, Joe’s gaffes were fine til now, even as a VP) not saying they aren’t annoying, but come on, Uncle Joe, Uncle Joe’d a lot. Now they are somehow framed as a product of his age.

It is ageist to go after Biden’s gaffes (they were somewhat tolerated in the past even as VP) and it is annoying to go after Bernie for his heart failure - just the same way that it was problematic to go after Clinton, who like a boss stood outside in a heat wave for 3 hours while diagnosed with pneumonia.

I mean, like just completely abandoning them is what sticks in my craw. As you’ve said, we’ve done it before, and they were the first people to really fight IS before we could help them, but this just feels like we’re offering them up on a Silver platter to Turkey. 

Diplomacy - though this administration seems to have gotten rid of it. But giving the Turks free reign to do what they will with our other ally. Especially if that the Turks plan on doing is the complete opposite of our American ideals. 

That’s what I was thinking. We could use our diplomatic resources to help them out without just leaving them out to dry. There are ways to keep them from being destroyed without our military presence. 

This isnt just about the fact that the Kurds are a historically oppressed group - they were a key part in fighting IS, and we agreed to protect them for that. Now we are pretty much throwing them to the wolves. 

Those physicals may be required of everyone. Citizena and noncitizens alike. I had to get one when in Japan, but they also require all long term residents and citizens to participate in their system.

Japan. It was amazing. I was an independently contracted employee, though and if you were to work for a company that does all that stuff for you, lots more get taken out (It was a mix of the pension plan and the health insurance). I basically got a set of bills for the year, and had to go to the convenience store to…

well, lets hope they follow through, then. Cause they haven’t in the past. 

IF ITS NOTHING THEN GIVE THEM THE DOCUMENTS!!! PROVE THEM WRONG!!

Love that the narrative is that immigrants are the ones “abusing” public health care options, when the people who most rely on it are poor rural whites.

That’s also a major distinction - you’re travelling. The assumption is that you’re going back home. Working and Student visas would have different requirements. And many countries are way more reasonable about having people obtain health insurance for their national health systems once you touch down in the country.…

Our public health care policies are generous? Please.

That’s what I’m worried about... 

Christ. I hope not, because the outcome is the same: if clinics are closed in the state of Louisiana, they will have to go a fair distance to the next available clinic, which might be in Texas. That is an undue burden, is it not?