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But in fairness, Mup, the statement shared is 100% on point regarding transparency and the abject failure (or complicit behavior) on the coverage of Biden’s decline and cover-up in real time. Is it cowardice or political posturing?

I know this is a hot button issue for you, Red, and I can certainly appreciate that. The Jet use/cost is a fair argument, as is the use of Zoom to eliminate cost. I have no idea what other scheduled meetings or travel coincided with that trip, the importance of the trip etc, but let’s assume you’re right—it was a 1.5 hour business trip that could have been handled with a phone call. Fair criticism. We each decide where it falls in our outrage meter and vote accordingly. The carbon footprint hypocrisy is aligned with the other side, not this one.

That’s a ridiculous premise. Coverage and premiums are highly regulated under the ACA, and nothing happens outside the watchful eyes of government regulators. The system is designed by the government, and you treat it as if it isn’t. What you’re advocating for is for the designers of the system to develop another system most likely to suck worse.

That’s the thing with government programs…they make sense conceptually but don’t work and cannot exist without another organization/corporation doing the heavy lifting. Public employees retire at 55ish, with nice perks like low co-pays and very little out of pocket. A great program for those who are entitled to it, that cannot exist without others working to 65….no 67….no 70 to fund it. Medicare fails without private insurance, and the move to eliminate private insurance puts the govt in charge of all insurance, and of course govt gave us the Medicare system to begin with.

Weren’t you saying previously that in your practice, that Medicare is as insufficient to cover expenses absent private pay that put the benjies in the docs pocks?

Is Colbert in the lots-of-affluenza-types-will-rally-to-spend-to-save group like NPR? While it seems they like the message, they don’t seem to rally much around the product he produces.

Oh, snap—-Trump pardons/commutes sentence for GM in exchange for her rolling on high profile politically connected clients? Interesting angle, Andy. That way, we get answers straight from the source.

Circle of life. Seems like they were willing to lose a sh-t ton of money with Colbert’s anti-Trump dialogue to strengthen the very cozy and friendly relationship with the Biden/Dem admin. When things changed, they recognized significant exposure during the 60 Minutes litigation, Colbert and his failing enterprise were expendable. In other words, they partnered/protected Biden/Harris until it made sense not to. Seems like an easy call to me.

Your perspective seems badly skewed here. Your "guess" is "Epstein's best friend the president is on there proving he is a pedophile", yet this seems incompatible with the notion that JB and team had control of the documents, narrative and major media outlets for 1463 days, and for most of that time, he was the obvious frontrunner for the next 4 year span. That means for nearly 1500 days, he and his team had full possession of the intel and yet he withheld that crucial information from the American people? Is that your contention here, Ned? That JB, Garland and the crew were protecting DJT for four straight years? No, that makes zero sense. Maybe it would have helped if you and yours had pushed JB to scream about what's in the files. Instead, you stopped caring for a while (48 mos +/-) before caring again. Oh well, maybe next time.

I understand how you feel. For example, I felt the same way watching Biden and his disciples raging over Trump holding onto classified material, only to have them think to rethink how they felt about Biden pilfering classified/top secret docs over his decades in office. It's like they were outraged, then suddenly they weren't. "Rank hypocrisy" is an excellent phrase. As I said. Some people will care--you're in that group.

Exactly!

Student loan debt, too!

I think the country should hear from him regularly and routinely, it’s an insight into the Biden family mindset. He’s the smartest guy his dad knows, and his dad played handball with Albert Einstein—beat him twice!

I can share thoughts on other subjects I’m not interested in, the list is actually quite long. Those poll results are actually quite interesting. Democrats are interested in the Epstein files, and believe the government is hiding details…seemingly waking up from the four year slumber where they didn’t seem too concerned at all. Completely predictable.

“A wise fisherman rarely expects the fish to jump into the boat, but occasionally it happens.” LS, today I believe the system auto-corrected. Let me check: Zohran Zohran Zohran Hmm. Maybe not. He’s a guy who preys on the overly emotional and often (though rarely) well-intentioned then, if given the chance, will create a system designed to take away opportunity for personal/professional/emotional growth by dumbing things down to buzzwords and offers of free stuff and giveaways. The result will be entirely predictable— the entitled class (Mamdani and his pals), the mostly entitled (Kay and crew), and a whole bunch of people on the outside looking in, with precious little hope of getting out of the rain. That’s the difference between you and me, Kay. I recognize hurt as one of life’s realities, and press on. Some people believe only the latest political messiah rehashing failed political systems spells the answer to removing the hurt from the world. Nah, we’ll be ok. You’ll go for a run, hit the Orangetheory for a killer abs workout, get your emotional/physical house in order and forgive.

I don’t even understand why it’s called a secret meeting when you seem to know everything about it. As to files, I think if there were high profile people involved their names have long been scrubbed. It would not surprise me at all. Beyond that, I don’t really care.

It’s telling me… It wasn’t a block buster story, it was run of the mill gossip mongering; Some people believe it is a real story; Some people think it’s a bogus story; Most people don’t really care and moved on 5 mins after the news broke; Distrust in our media institutions is at an all time high. That’s what it tells me, Sport. Signed, Chief

What’s it telling you, playa?

The silence is deafening?

You have to hop off that pedestal you put yourself on, Fergs, lots of people work with people and get/give hugs. You’re dismissing the words and feelings of the women who made the complaints about Biden touching them inappropriately, not me. It’s you making an absurd argument. You not being a hugger doesn’t preclude you from acknowledging Biden’s behavior, geesh you love to carry water for the guy.

Thank you for providing the link where Biden acknowleged inappropriate touching of females in an attempt to make a human connection in times of comfort by rubbing noses, rubbing the necks of women, running his hands down their backs, and rubbing the thighs of his women because he wanted to. I used “groped” for efficiency. Kudos to you, though, Fergie for going to bat for him. On your worst day, I’d find it hard to believe you would rub the backs, necks, thighs and rub noses with your female patients. Would you defend a colleague who did so? I agree, btw, that on the perfectly acceptable to morally repugnant scale, what Epstein did was worse and I’d think the victims of Biden’s behavior would likely say the same. Still, it’s also a long, long way from acceptable behavior but a non-issue for Biden supporters who are suddenly fixated on a story about a potentially fictional birthday card.

An incredibly high percentage of Americans voted for Joe Biden after he acknowledged groping nearly a dozen women, Andy. Add that to his history of making racially insensitive comments over decades in public life. People care when they care, develop moral amnesia when they don’t.

Look back further, NB. Did he even work the drive through at the McDonald's when running for office? Stunt double, I say….he was off planning for the September visit to Buckingham palace. How he knew about it then is unclear, but Charles may be in on it.

Would you support releasing the Grand Jury testimony? During the Smith affair, one of our resident legal experts made the point that in certain cases, “special rules” apply for “electeds”. Then of course, we saw leaked photos purporting to show classified files designed to influence public opinion, something outside what one would assume was standard operating procedure. Then, we had NYS reimagining legal theory to pursue a political opponent. Oh, and unless I’m mistaken, the Carroll civil suit required the temporary pause on traditional thoughts with respect to statutes of limitations. So, Mup, Bondi decides to steamroll this through and deal with consequences. We see the inside baseball version we typically don’t see. Would you support that?

I wonder if in a post-Mamdani NYC if hot gurl skimpy bikini season will even be a thing. By the time he seizes means of production and distribution, considers the socioeconomic impact with respect to manufacturing, income disparity and impact on climate change, there is a lot to think about. It’s boring af, but we need to think things through. If you and Kay can pull this get together off, document for posterity and I’ll shoot you my email. I’ll back them up on a dvd, or a cloud if I can figure it out. I’d do that for you, yes, I would do that for you both.