I do wonder, sadly, how much of the apology impulse on Fox’s part was due precisely to the uncompromising, hectoring immature language that Hahn was wielding — rational discourse slips silently under their radar, but their audience does recognize and respond to bullhorns.

Oh, he did slide in “The International Left” which is a dogwhistle for “Those Stalinist Jews” in many drooling rightwing circles.

Thank you.

Ah, you are very likely correct, excellent point re. agency.

Switch a few nouns and this bigoted motherfucker sounds like my German great-uncles, who were actual Nazis.

Occasionally some right-winger will provide a sideways window into their reasoning that’s new and useful to me in understanding how they think — I recall a heated discussion on a different forum a few years back where some conservative dad was adamant that the school breakfast program for disadvantaged kids in his…

Yeah sorry I got carried away there. Medicare coverage is partially tailored to the specific to the needs of the elderly — people often wait to get common procedures like cataract surgery or hip replacements until they retire and they are covered on Medicare.

My GP is about 3 months but I can see a nurse practitioner sooner than that if it’s something urgent; for specialists I’ve had to wait longer — my state is large, rural and underserved and we have a dearth of medical practitioners of all kinds. I made a dermatologist appointment in August and the first availability is…

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Oh I agree; I don’t know a whole lot of service members, but the ones I do, and all the older vets, hate his fat corrupt guts. Which is why I’m not super scared of an armed loyalist takeover of the White House in the case he loses in 2020.

Who would actually be tasked with this, do you know? The FBI? The National Guard?

It’s the exact same care, the same hospitals, the same medical staff - it’s not full nationalization like the UK did; it’s more like Germany where all the hospitals etc are still owned by whomever. That wouldn’t change.

Absolutely this. But they are too limited to do any actual research and learn that in many other countries that have universal/national healthcare, private health insurance is still very much a thing and is in fact explicitly recognized as a perk by which companies can lure higher-level employees.

Yeah, that’s indeed worrisome a la Bush; although that would happen directly after the election, not on Jan 20.

Nicely said by the man who’s selling us out to Saudi Arabia, that staunch bastion of moral governance.

Who would physically carry him out, or who are the members of the armed forces or WH security who don’t support Trump’s lawlessness?

She might even sarcasto-clap. It’s her signature move.

I know a lot of folks are worried about that, but I just can’t see it. Above all he’s an extreme physical coward, and despite his popularity with authoritarians, there are still many very burly people in the armed forces who will be both tasked with the lawful removal and willing to carry it out.

LOL, as if they need actual evidence to gibbonshriek that concept into the ether. How naive are you?

Some of the replies are truly things of beauty that have restored my faith in Americans just the tiniest bit.