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George Will did say in a field of 18 Democrats running for the nomination that the DNC could easily be hijacked, just like Trump hijacked the RNC. Biden and Sanders are the only ones going into it with any degree of real support. I worry Biden is a ticking Me Too time bomb (real or not) and Sanders is the only one progressives can agree on. Remove them and the base and the center establishment will fracture into a 18 pieces. Perfect situation for a celebrity or other blow hard to swoop in turn the debates into a circus by making the others look small (exactly what Trump will do in the General).

Clinton vs Joe the Plumber

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pence-details-plan-for-creation-of-space-force-in-what-would-be-the-sixth-branch-of-the-military/2018/08/09/0b40b8d0-9bdc-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html?utm_term=.81bc42377a38 Few highlights from Pence: -US Space Command is going to be recreated as a Combatant Command by the end of the year (I think Rumsfeld disbanded it), assuming responsibility from US Strategic Command. -Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, a new top level civilian position reporting to the Secretary of Defense “to oversee the growth and expansion of the sixth branch of service.” -"Budget neutral" Sounds like they are going full retard on this by creating a Department of the Space Force equal to Departments of the Navy, Air Force, and Army vs simply a new branch under the Department of the Air Force (like how the Marine Corps is under the Department of the Navy). That new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space is basically a Secretary of the Space Force in all but name. The natural candidate to build out US Space Command is Air Force Space Command (Strategic Command's Space Component, basically already doing that job, and the Air Force's administrative hub for space), but that means it can't serve as the foundation for US Space Force (pretty sure that's illegal, Joint Chiefs can't have operational authority). Such a bureaucratic mess.

Isn't NY heavily gerrymandered by the Democrats to make their seats ultra safe (as oppose to maximizing number of blue districts)? Thereby creating super red districts like this.

What is the difference? I don't know anything about this.

Why would he need 100% of the shares and not a simple majority?

Aren't the Atlas boosters Russian?

Who's covering the cost difference between the Atlas and Falcon boosters?

Why not a progressive deductible/coinsurance based on income? Higher your income the higher your deductible and coinsurance (that caps out at 20% and $2,000 with a $10k max out of pocket). Employers can either fund HSAs or Supplemental Insurance. Participation fees (deductible, coinsurance, oop) gradually introduce at 5x Federal Poverty Level. I've got no objection to any system so long as it's got a robust appeal system (leave State Insurance Commissions in place as an appeal option), a 24/7 Consumer Direct Long Term Care system, and protections for Big Pharma that successfully bring to market treatments for rare conditions.

I don't agree with the numbers ($45k for home care), that's about what I get and and it only covers 72/168hrs of my my weekly needs. Most of Medicaid LTC is badly under served. The asset and income issue has lots of ways around it, Medicaid funding and resource allocation is the bigger issue. Best solution in my mind is to simply Federally mandate Medicaid LTC standards that comply with the Olmstead Decision (Disability Integration Act) and remove means testing. The transition to a national LTC system could legit get people killed in the chaos.

CNN has the Cohen recording

Health Insurance Industry and money politics (cable industry that run ads, PR firms that write political ads, Political Consultants) all stand to lose a significant chunk of business under a progressive administration, assuming Congress goes along. Trump hasn't touch any of that besides his stupid trade war. Democratic National Party Inc. faced zero consequences for losing 2016 or the Congress, Governorships, and State Houses during the Obama administration, except now they can fund raise harder because Trump, funds that go right into that same failed and unaccountable industry.

jfc

This guy a troll?

Stranger Things, Silicon Valley, and Game of Thrones team up movie, I'm in.

Sanders bill closes that gap. Interesting side note, the disability community is actually pretty annoyed with the Sanders version of Medicare for All since it completely ignores what to do with Long Term Care Services. Medicare for All would eliminate the need for Medicaid which is where every State houses those programs (Medicaid Waivers) and there's a lot of scary uncertainty of what a Medicare Long Term Care System would look like, especially for those in States that offer 24/7 home care and have high earned income limits that let us work (New York and California). Then you've got States like to Florida that barely do anything. That's a scary middle of the road to meet in.

I wonder if there are tapes of the abortion pay off for that RNC Finance guy and if what's public about it is true....

Now the fight is going to be over if Medicare for All means Single Payer or something like Medicare Advantage.

Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote. I didn't say pop up out of nowhere, though is name recognition was very low, I'm saying wouldn't have been taken seriously as a viable candidate in the primaries. He's now second behind Biden in 2020 polling. Democrats need to find a candidate who will motivate people to vote, if they go with another John Kerry or Hillary Clinton, they'll lose. Policy ideas, experience, and fear of the other candidate doesn't work with voters, it should but then we got Bush for 2 terms, a community organizer freshman Senator for 2 terms, and now Trump. All Republicans need to say is abortion to get their voters out, Democrats need more. If the Democratic Nominee can't inspire people that they'll try to fix the country, beyond the damage Trump causes, they'll stay with Trump or won't show up.

Drunk tourists are the only thing keeping my county hospital alive.

3 of the 4 most successful politicians in the last decade were Obama, Sanders, and Trump. They all have one thing in common: a year or two before they entered their campaigns NOBODY in DC politics thought they had a chance and laughed at anyone who said they did. There is a universal anger in this country on left and right because the relief valve of politics, the moderates, can't function as actual moderates without losing the only reason they got there: the money. Lieberman knew he was fucked in Connecticut without insurance company money backing him. When moderates can't function the electorate will only go more extreme in search for someone to fix it: for the left that was Obama then Sanders, for the right it was Trump. Obama's failure to go after money in politics is what led to Trump.

I knew a conservative political science major who made this exact argument saying Romney should have cheated because it would have been better for the country. He was dead serious too.

Yup, a lot of cripples are pissed about this.

Yup