Episode 1056 of Democrats Are Worthless.

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    7 hours ago

    And this is exactly why some people believe that they’re not worth a damn either . You got assholes like this that aren’t making any case at all to show they’re any better .

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    20 hours ago

    Fucking imbecile.

    To put it in a weird context: I am like 50 and I was so conservative as a younger man that I was nicknamed after Rush Limbaugh. OK? I was a pre-Trump right-wing asshole.

    And even I favored Medicare for All. As a conservative Republican.

    Why? Because it made the most business sense. You mean I can control my health care costs, cover everyone in the country, cut out like 2/3 of the paperwork, anyone can see any doctor, and I can let HR do something other than insurance paperwork? You couldn’t build a bigger political win-win-win-win-win.

    That’s actually the issue that drove me out of the party. Romney running against Obamacare (aka Romneycare) as if he didn’t invent the fucking plan was my last straw.

    If you’re a business conservative against Medicare for All, you need a new CPA.

    • Dejected Warp Core@lemmy.world
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      IMO, it’s not just a business advantage, it’s a small-business advantage due to lack of bargaining power at small scale and the proportion of revenue (overhead) per employee. Big companies can bargain for better deals from insurance markets (bigger “risk pool”), and make way more per employee so it’s not as big a deal. So, it’s an tangible manifestation of “main street not wall street,” if you feel like turning talking points back around for folks.

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      14 hours ago

      I’m glad you can see the light on this issue, I live and work in a very conservative area and anytime I try to bring the business advantage argument up with the people around me they just fall back on “commie socialism” and “death panels” and then shut down on me. At this point I’m convinced even their God king trump couldn’t convince them it’s actually the better option…not that he would but you get what I’m saying.

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    22 hours ago

    My favorite Mamdani quote:

    “For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people. It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can.”

    He’s talking about Jeffries and Schumer.

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      8 hours ago

      Their hands were tied, how do you expect them to make meaningful changes and rake in that sweet Israeli money?

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    Fuck Hakeem Jefferies. Traitorous scum should forfeit every penny paid by his salary and the rest of his money taken as damages.

    Probably can’t even quantify which of his assets are salary, insider trading, or bribes.

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    24 hours ago

    Dear Constituents,

    Fuck you motherfuckers.

    Sincerely Hakeem “I’ve had my picture taken with Netanyahu” Jefferies.

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    Jeffries is the quintessential neocon corpo democrat. He, and others like him in the house and senate need to go. If you’re a “democrat” and don’t support universal healthcare, then you’re just another obstacle to be removed.

    In other completely unrelated yet shocking news:

    Time to get rid of these clowns and get some people with better ideas in their place.

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      Even fucking Israel has universal healthcare! And we help pay for it (by paying for a portion of the military they don’t have to)!

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        YES. And it pisses me off so much. Why the fuck are we subsidizing Israel’s high standard of living – one of the highest in the world, with universal healthcare and publicly-funded higher education – at the cost of our own?

        I am so tired of these old evil motherfuckers literally trying to buy a stairway to heaven with our tax dollars because they got the idea into their fat old calcified brains that God™ would conveniently forget all the evil they’ve done if they just make themselves friends of Israel and bless Jerusalem. Leave it to lawmakers to socialize the [perceived] cost of their own sins.